What is Bootstrap Program

Bawantha Rathnayaka
1 min readFeb 15, 2019

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It is the initialization process of the program which is going to be loaded to startup the machine by starting operating system.

Normally it is store in ROM (firmware) it checks whether all the resources are capable and functioning properly.

Now days the bootstrap program is not install in side the ROM but only the bootstrap loader in the ROM. bootstrap loader is in a special block in the hard disk called as boot block.

bootstrap process

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Bawantha Rathnayaka
Bawantha Rathnayaka

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