• Ross_audio@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Boot = Bootstrap

    If you’ve loaded up a virtual CPU first that’s not a boot of mainline Linux on the CPU.

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      8 months ago

      I respectfully disagree. The turning machine is not doing any set-up before the emulated CPU begins execution, and all of the actual BIOS is done by the emulated CPU.