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be launched by the UEFI firmware.

Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately.

This directory contains everything required for the boot process except for configuration files not needed at boot time (the most notable of those being those that belong to the GRUB boot-loader) and the map installer.

The /dev directory contains the special device files for all the devices.

Apparently, many tools (among them udev) will soon require a /run/ directory that is mounted early (as tmpfs).

The Linux kernel supports EFISTUB booting which allows EFI firmware to load the kernel as an EFI executable.

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The kernel is the core of an operating system.

KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machine, is a hypervisor built into the Linux kernel.

Non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) is random-access memory that retains data without applied power.