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Re:Twitter Client for UEFI by silisili on Saturday March 12, 2022 @10:08AM (#30651866)
Thanks for this. I had a generally good idea about this, but despite seeing the word for many years, never actually knew what POST stood for before this comment. I'm not even sure I knew that it was an acronym...
Re:Twitter Client for UEFI by ComputerGuru on Saturday March 12, 2022 @05:19PM (#30655501)
If you're interested in learning further, I wrote up everything in the "regular" (pre-UEFI) boot process here and have been told it's a very good crash course on how your PC boots up: https://neosmart.net/wiki/mbr-boot-process/
Re:Twitter Client for UEFI by saghm on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:40PM (#30653114)
Yeah, I always assumed it meant "post" as in "after", and it meant "after starting up" or something