Chapter 9 The Intel® Architecture Boot Flow
There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.
—Peter A. Cohen
A lot of little steps is exactly the idea of walking the path of the Intel architecture boot flow. The bare minimum firmware requirements for making an Intel architecture platform operational and for booting an OS are presented here in a given order. Design or market segment-based requirements might add, delete, or reorder many of the items presented in this chapter; however, for the vast majority of system designs, these steps in this order are sufficient for a full or cold boot from a state where the power is off to the handoff to the operating system. Depending on the architecture of the BIOS, there may be multiple ...
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