UEFI: what happens when booting the system

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This article describes the operations performed when booting a UEFI system until the Grub menu stored on the EFI partition present on the hard disk is displayed.

For demonstration purposes, we will use a QEMU/KVM x86_64 system loaded with the RHEL8.5 DVD.


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