Hacker News with Generative AI: Bootloaders

Bios Boot to D (theartofmachinery.com)
After my previous post on using D for C-like programming, I wondered about going deeper. What’s the minimum it would take to run C-like D code on a PC? Could it run straight from a BIOS bootloader?
Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Bootloaders, Low-Level Programming
11 points by teleforce 12 days ago | 2 comments
Linux as a UEFI bootloader and kexecing windows (2022) (trmm.net)
Description: As strange as it first seems, chainloading Windows from Linux might be the more secure way to boot the system. From within a minimal PXE booted runtime, the Linux shell scripts can perform a TPM-rooted remote attestation with the normal tpm2 tools, receive the BitLocker keys from the attestation server using the safeboot scripts and safely pass them to Microsoft’s bootloader in a UEFI ramdisk via a form of kexec.
Linux, UEFI, Security, Bootloaders, Windows
12 points by GalaxySnail 15 days ago | 0 comments
Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018) (githubusercontent.com)
Linux, Operating Systems, Bootloaders
88 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 19 days ago | 27 comments
Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes (github.com/Jacksaur)
There are many great community made GRUB themes to spice up your bootloader before booting into your system proper. Unfortunately, they're spread across multiple sites and it can be difficult to find good ones. As another user told me, the majority of themes on Pling (the largest host of GRUB themes currently) are fairly low effort and can be boring to trawl through.
Open Source, Customization, Linux, Bootloaders, Design
458 points by todsacerdoti 20 days ago | 123 comments
Booting Linux kernels on x86 without using a bootloader such as GRUB2, etc. (kernel.org)
Linux, Operating Systems, x86 Architecture, Bootloaders
9 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 33 days ago | 0 comments
Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop (op-co.de)
Exactly one year ago, after updating a bunch of Debian packages, my laptop stopped booting Linux. Instead, it briefly showed the GRUB banner, then rebooted into the BIOS setup. On every startup. Reproducibly. Last Friday 13th, I was bitten by this bug again, on a machine running Kali Linux, and had to spend an extra hour at work to fix it.
Linux, Bootloaders, Software Bugs
97 points by ge0rg 158 days ago | 16 comments
Writing a Legacy PXE Bootloader (2bits.in)
Legacy Systems, Network Boot, Bootloaders
3 points by todsacerdoti 300 days ago | 0 comments
No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead (pretalx.com)
Operating Systems, Kernel, Bootloaders
794 points by zdw 319 days ago | 447 comments
Reverse Engineering MenuetOS 64 – Primary Boot Loader (starkeblog.com)
Reverse Engineering, Operating Systems, Bootloaders
25 points by whereistimbo 349 days ago | 2 comments