Wednesday, November 04, 2009

EFI: System Partition

http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface



The System Partition contains directories, data files, and EFI Images. EFI Images can contain :
EFI OS Loader,
EFI Driver to extend platform firmware capability, or
EFI Application that provides a transient service to the system. EFI Applications could include things such as a utility to create partitions or extended diagnostics.

2.1 Boot Manager
2.1.1 EFI Images
2.1.2 EFI Applications
2.1.3 EFI OS Loaders
2.1.4 EFI Drivers
2.2 Firmware Core
2.2.1 EFI
2.2.2 Runtime Services

Boot Manager will load EFI App or Drivers.
EFI images include App and Drivers.
OS Loaders is a special type of EFI App.
System partition is in FAT32 format with its GUID.

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