[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

boot disk
     
         the magnetic disk usually a hard disk
        from which an operating system kernel is loaded or
        "bootstrapped".  this second phase in system start-up is
        performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in rom,
        possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable
        non-volatile storage.
     
        ms-dos and microsoft windows can be configured in the
        bios to try to boot off either floppy disk or hard
        disk, in either order.  by default they first check for the
        presence of a floppy disk in the drive at start-up and try
        to use that as a boot disk if present.  if no disk is in the
        drive they then try to boot off the hard disk.
     
        some operating systems, notably sunos and solaris, can
        be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk.
        such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
     
        1997-06-09
     
     
see also:
magnetic disk hard disk operating system kernel rom non-volatile storage 
ms-dos microsoft windows bios floppy disk hard disk 
operating systems sunos solaris diskless workstation 

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