Chapter 3. Boot configuration
Boot from hardware and firmware
Managing startup and boot configuration
Managing the boot configuration data store and its entries
Unlike early releases of server operating systems for Microsoft Windows, Windows Server 2012 R2 doesn’t boot from an initialization file. Instead, the operating system uses the Windows Boot Manager to initialize and start the operating system. The boot environment dramatically changes the way the operating system starts, and it is designed to resolve issues related to boot integrity, operating system integrity, and firmware abstraction. The boot environment is loaded prior to the operating system, making it a pre–operating system environment. This ensures that the ...
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