Bootx Macintosh Personal Computer (1 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. BootX is asoftware-based bootloader designed and developed by Apple Inc. for useon the company's Macintosh computer range. BootX is used to prepare thecomputer for use by loading all required device drivers and thenstarting-up Mac OS X by booting the kernel on all PowerPC Macintoshesrunning the Mac OS X 10.2 operating system or later versions. UsingBootROM, a read-only memory (ROM) computer chip containing OpenFirmwarea graphical front end is shown briefly on all compatible Macintoshcomputers as a grey Apple logo with a spinning cursor that appearsduring the startup sequence.The program is freely available as part ofthe Darwin operating system under the open source Apple Public SourceLicense. BootX was superseded by another nearly identical bootloadernamed boot.efi and an Extensible Firmware Interface ROM on the releaseof the Intel- based Mac.…