UEFIBIOS介绍.pptVIP

* Press F2 to enter setup BIOS The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is a type of firmware used during the booting process (power-on startup) on IBM PC compatible computers. The fundamental purposes of the BIOS are to initialize and test the system hardware components, and to load a boot loader or an operating system from a mass memory device. The BIOS additionally provides an abstraction layer for the hardware, i.e. a consistent way for application programs and operating systems to interact with the keyboard, display, and other input/output (I/O) devices. Variations in the system hardware are hidden by the BIOS from programs that use BIOS services instead of directly accessing the hardware. The term BIOS was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP/M operating system in 1975,describing the machine-specific part of CP/M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware. With the introduction of PS/2 machines, IBM divided the System BIOS into real-mode and protected mode portions. The real-mode portion was meant to provide backward-compatibility with existing operating systems such as DOS, and therefore was named CBIOS (for Compatibility BIOS), whereas the ABIOS (for Advanced BIOS) provided new interfaces specifically suited for multitasking operating systems such as OS/2. Award BIOS, manufactured by Award Software Phoenix BIOS, manufactured by Phoenix Technologies AMI BIOS, manufactured by American Megatrends Byosoft BIOS, manufactured by Nanjing Byosoft Software As of 2011, the BIOS is being replaced by the more complex Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) in many new machines. EFI is a specification which replaces the runtime interface of the legacy BIOS. Initially written for the Itanium architecture, EFI is now available for x86 and x86-64 platforms; the specification development is driven by The Unified EFI Forum, an industry Special Interest Group. EFI booting has been supported in only Microsoft Windows versions supporting GP