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The Boot Loader
- All UEFI was really designed to do is talk to the hardware and create a Database of available resources for the Operating System
- You still need to start the OS and pass the Database of resources to it
- That is the Boot Loaders Job
- The Boot Loader lives in a Primary GPT Partition (or the MBR for older systems)
Boot Loaders are Unique to the Operating System they are designed for
Boot Loaders can load competing OS’s