Talk:Booting

Bootloop was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 27 July 2024 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Booting. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Hello!

I want to add link to article. It's strict about topic (change boot order and boot from removable device). Also article is well written and has a lot of pictures. It's very close to article on link which already has "Change the Boot Order in BIOS", but I think it digs more deeply and give a lot of examples, therefore it's more useful.

Link: https://123qweasd.com/blog/tech/how-to-boot-from-flash-drive-ultimate-guide/

The FreeBSD Booting Process

Loading a kernel
Determine the root filesystem
Initialize user-land things
Interesting combinations

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Keyvan amel (talk • contribs) 10:50, 7 July 2006‎

Merge per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bootloop

Merging Bootloop into Booting#Bootloops. Scope is 'erroneous state' of a distributed and concurrent system of systems. -- Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 21:01, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some necessary heading adjustments to the merged material. I'm not impressed with the decision made at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bootloop. After the merge, it almost looks ready for a WP:SPLIT. ~Kvng (talk) 15:38, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The merge put the article into Category:Technological failures; I'm not sure the existence of a boot process is, in and of itself, a technological failure of the type discussed in the other articles in that category. Unless there's a way to put a section of an article into that category, in which case that should be done with the "Bootloop" section, that should probably be undone. Guy Harris (talk) 04:58, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Removed. ~Kvng (talk) 13:43, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Bootloader" vs. "boot loader"

The article largely uses the phrase "boot loader", except for the caption for one image, but Booting § Modern boot loaders has both Comparison of boot loaders - which is a redirect to Comparison of bootloaders -- and Bootloader as "See also" pages.

The titles of the references all use "bootloader", suggesting that it may be the more common term out there in the wild, but that might just be a narrow selection of external articles.

(But, for what it's worth, macOS Ventura's autocorrect turns "bootloaders" into "boot loaders".)

Any idea which term is the most common one? Guy Harris (talk) 19:19, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]