December 2017
Beginner
386 pages
9h 16m
English
Once POST finishes verifying that the server hardware is working correctly, the BIOS then hands over control to the first boot device. That is because the BIOS looks after the boot device that contains the Master Boot Record (MBR). The MBR is created when disk partitions are created; however, the MBR resides outside the disk partitions. More precisely, the MBR is located in the first disk sector. As we learned earlier, the MBR contains either NTLDR, BOOTMGR, or both depending on the Windows OS installed on the server's disk. That then determines the progress of the programs (see Table 10.1) that will get executed with the purpose of loading the OS into RAM.
Table 10.1. NTLDR versus BOOTMGR:
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NTLDR (Windows ... |
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