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  • In SPARC, the initial stage of the boot process requires support from system firmware, typically loaded into a PROM, such that a bootable device can be addressed and that some minimal I/O functionality exists for reading of a promary bootblock.

    Sun Bloggers 2010

  • The bootblock locates and loads the secondary boot program, ufsboot, into memory and passes control to it.

    Sun Bloggers 2010

  • The initial stage of the boot process requires support from system firmware, typically loaded into a PROM, such that a bootable device can be addressed and that some minimal I/O functionality exists for reading of a promary bootblock.

    Sun Bloggers 2010

  • In SPARC, the initial stage of the boot process requires support from system firmware, typically loaded into a PROM, such that a bootable device can be addressed and that some minimal I/O functionality exists for reading of a promary bootblock.

    Sun Bloggers 2010

  • The utility dd (1) is used to copy the bootblock to the specified disk partition.

    Sun Bloggers 2010

  • The bootblock construction of AmigaOS floppies ensured that hundreds of virus authors looking for a security hole found one.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • Your Acer cannot boot or start up because you have an error saying ntldr is missing corrupt or compressed - NLTDR boot bootblock start up files reset fix system replace repair.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

  • Your Dell cannot boot or start up because you have an error saying ntldr is missing corrupt or compressed - NLTDR boot bootblock start up files reset fix system replace repair.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

  • The bootblock construction of AmigaOS floppies ensured that hundreds of virus authors looking for a security hole found one.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • The bootblock construction of AmigaOS floppies ensured that hundreds of virus authors looking for a security hole found one.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

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