what is booting?

Question

what are the files going to b booted when system starts according to steps

Answer 1

If you have Windows XP, you can check to see what programs are booting at start-up. Just go to Start, and then RUN.. Then type MSCONFIG, and click on the Startup tab. This will list all the programs available on startup. You can check and uncheck programs to fit your needs. Careful though, there are some programs that need to run on startup.

Answer 2

In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the set of operations the computer performs when it is switched on that load an operating system.

Most computer systems can only execute code found in the memory (ROM or RAM). Modern operating systems are stored on hard disks, or occasionally on LiveCDs, USB flash drives, or other non-volatile storage devices. When a computer is first powered on, it doesn't have an operating system in memory. The computer's hardware alone cannot perform complex actions such as loading a program from disk, so an apparent paradox exists: to load the operating system into memory, one appears to need to have an operating system already loaded.

The solution is to use a special small program, called a bootstrap loader or boot loader. This program's only job is to load other software for the operating system to start. Often, multiple-stage boot loaders are used, in which several small programs summon each other, until the last of them loads the operating system. The name bootstrap loader comes from the image of one pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps (see bootstrapping).

Answer 3

In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the set of operations the computer performs when it is switched on that load an operating system.
Most computer systems can only execute code found in the memory (ROM or RAM). Modern operating systems are stored on hard disks, or occasionally on LiveCDs, USB flash drives, or other non-volatile storage devices. When a computer is first powered on, it doesn't have an operating system in memory. The computer's hardware alone cannot perform complex actions such as loading a program from disk, so an apparent paradox exists: to load the operating system into memory, one appears to need to have an operating system already loaded.

The solution is to use a special small program, called a bootstrap loader or boot loader. This program's only job is to load other software for the operating system to start. Often, multiple-stage boot loaders are used, in which several small programs summon each other, until the last of them loads the operating system. The name bootstrap loader comes from the image of one pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps (see bootstrapping

Boot loader
1.1 Second-stage boot loader
2 BIOS boot devices
3 Boot sequence on standard PC (IBM-PC compatible)
4 Other kinds of boot sequence
5 Hard reboot
6 Soft reboot
7 Random reboot
8 See also
9 Further reading


"Booting" a computer derives from the early days of the personal computer. The developers had issues with the dilemma of starting a computer operative system, as the startup programs were built into the system itself. But when the system wasn't running and powered up, how could they reach these programs? And if the system were running so that they could reach the programs, they wouldn't need them.

So they developed small startup programs and implemented them into the computer's firmware. As they solved the dilemma described above, they seemingly made the computer "lift itself in the bootstraps". Hence, these little programs were called "bootstrap programs" and the process "booting".

Answer 4

The process and functions that a computer goes through when it first starts up, ending in the proper loading of the Operating System and preparing it to receive commands.It is called booting.

Answer 5

booting is the starting of ur operating system (usually windows). important files belonging to ur os will be started

Answer 6

booting means staring up of your comp.the files that are booted on the booting of your comp are generally files of your operating system

Answer 7

booting means staring up of your operating system of your computer(for example windows,linux).
computer can be boot by floopy,or cd,dvd,or harddisk

normally use harddisk to boot

Answer 8

booting is the process by which wen one swtich on the computer rom carry's software stored in pc's harddisk to ram.

Answer 9

your sign in time and file open time, inbetween time is
booting.Ex.when you read a book you need to go which page you want to read thats happening in booting time.

Answer 10

io.sys
msdos.sys
command.com