On 2021/04/13 04:32, Michal Such������������������������ wrote:
Or like grub that understands the filesystem but not the storage and uses BIOS services to load data from the filesystem - such as the initrd or a select storage driver in the Windows case (which also means you cannot boot anymore when you change your storage hardware).
---- I've not heard of any windows systems having that problem. Probably the driver for the storage hardware is installed in windows before its use.
The packing of drivers into initrd is useful when you want to boot from some other medium - like from the network. Try booting Windows over Ethernet.
---- Unix used to provide a boot protocol for booting over the network. It predated linux, I'm pretty sure, and AFAIK, it worked with windows as well.
Thanks
You're welcome! :-)