ABSTRACT
One of the very interesting aspects of a computer system is what happens when power is ¢rst applied. What program will be run? How does it get into memory? Where in memory is it found? e term bootstrapping has been used to describe the process of using a very small program to load a larger one. From this comes the familiar phrase, “boot up your computer,” which simply means execute a small program (the bootloader) to load a bigger program (the operating system) into memory. is does not answer the question of how the small program gets into memory.
