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==Power On==
 
==Power On==
After power on the computer the firmware on your motherboard has to interact with the your hard drive to find a special partition on it. The motherboard contains the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS). On the older hardware it was named only BIOS. On newer machines the BIOS is called: type UEFI, (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). Both types of BIOS are the interfaces between the hardware and your operating system.
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After power on the computer the firmware on your motherboard has to interact with the your hard drive to find a special partition on it. The motherboard contains the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS).
 
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After power on your machine you have access to the BIOS setup by pressing a key like ''Delete'' or any key your motherboard manufacturer describes in his man pages.
After power on your machine you have access to the BIOS setup by pressing a key like ''Delete'', F2 or any key your motherboard manufacturer describes in his man pages.
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This special partition on your hard drive contains either the master boot record MBR or the newer GUID Partition Table (GPT).   
 
This special partition on your hard drive contains either the master boot record MBR or the newer GUID Partition Table (GPT).   
  
We will describe the starting process based on
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We will describe the boot process based on
 
* [[MBR and GPT|Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) using Master Boot Record (MBR) and the newer GUID Partition Table (GPT)]] and
 
* [[MBR and GPT|Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) using Master Boot Record (MBR) and the newer GUID Partition Table (GPT)]] and
 
* [[UEFI]] mashines
 
* [[UEFI]] mashines
  
As well  [[MBR and GPT]] as [[UEFI]] based BIOS types have the goal to bring your system to the GhostBSD/FreeBSD loader.
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Both [[MBR and GPT]] and [[UEFI]] have the goal to bring your system to the FreeBSD loader.
  
 
==Bootstrap Process==
 
==Bootstrap Process==

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