On 09/23/2017 05:02 PM, Lee Fisher wrote:
On 09/23/2017 09:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:I want a very custom installer. I'm looking for something that takes a broad view of the boot process. [...]I don't know of any x86/BIOS/Debian-centric doc that meets your needs. Here are some related docs (includes EFI/UEFI not just BIOS, some of these are still useful for BIOS boot background). HTH
Thank you.They may not be Debian-centric, but browsing the URLs they are likely to be at least distribution agnostic. Now if only there were 48 hour days {even useful to retirees ;}
http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484200711 https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#debian-installer_support https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/intel-boot-loader-development-kit/minimal-intel-architecture-boot-loader-paper.html http://www.linux-kvm.org/downloads/lersek/ovmf-whitepaper-c770f8c.txt https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxboot/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_startup_process http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/kernel-boot-process/ https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/Booting/linux-bootstrap-1.html https://lwn.net/Articles/632528/ http://wiki.osdev.org/System_Initialization_(x86) https://firmware.intel.com/learn/fsp/about-intel-fsp https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_boot_process https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot
