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For more information, see UEFI in Windows. The UEFI environment is a minimal boot OS upon which devices are booted and the Windows 10 OS runs. Windows 10 utilizes the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to support the handoff of system control from the SoC firmware boot loader to the OS. For more information, contact the SoC vendor. Emergency flashing requires tools specific to the SoC.

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The SoC firmware boot loaders also contain an emergency flashing capability that allows devices to be flashed when the boot environment isn't stable and Full Flash Update (FFU) image-based flashing using the Microsoft-provided flashing tool isn't possible. After the SoC firmware boot loaders finish, the device is booted into the UEFI environment. The SoC firmware boot loaders are designed to finish as fast as possible, and nothing is drawn to the screen while they're running. The SoC firmware boot loaders initialize the minimal set of hardware required for the device to run.

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For more information, see Capture and apply Windows Full Flash Update (FFU) images. OEMs can also implement their own UEFI flashing application. Microsoft provides a UEFI flashing application that can be used in non-manufacturing scenarios. This OS is used specifically for installing updates.įull Flash Update (FFU) image flashing mode refers to a UEFI application that flashes an OS image to device storage. The update OS is a minimal OS environment provided by Microsoft. The following diagram illustrates this process at a high level.įollowing are more details about some of the components in this diagram: The UEFI environment launches the Windows Boot Manager, which determines whether to boot to Full Flash Update (FFU) image flashing or device reset mode, to the update OS, or to the main OS.

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These applications can utilize UEFI drivers and services. The firmware boot loaders boot the UEFI environment and hands over control to UEFI applications written by the SoC vendor, Microsoft, and OEMs. The device is powered on and runs the SoC-specific firmware boot loaders, which initialize the hardware on the device and provide emergency flashing functionality. When a Windows 10 device is turned on, it goes through the following high-level process: This article provides an overview of the boot process, and it describes the SoC firmware boot loaders, UEFI, and Windows Boot Manager in more detail. Windows Boot Manager provided by Microsoft.

UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) environment provided by the SoC vendor. To accommodate each of these scenarios, the Windows 10 boot process uses the following components:įirmware boot loaders provided by the System on Chip (SoC) vendor. Afterwards, the device needs to ensure that the device is booting into the appropriate OS depending on if the user wants to perform an update or a restore on the device, or if the user wants to boot the device into the main OS. After the device's firmware initializes all the hardware, the device needs to ensure that there's enough power to boot.

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If that’s true, any way to safely install windows without removing grub boot entry?Īnd no, i didn’t choose manjaro because thought that “its popular and fast i will play games there go brr”, i mainly develop software and game mods on it, playing games is more like a hobby.Some information in this section may apply only to Windows 10 Mobile and certain processor architectures.Ī device running Windows 10 has several requirements for booting into the OS. I decided to install windows as a second OS, for games, but heard somewhere that windows doesnt care about grub and linux overall and stupidly replaces grub boot point with Windows boot loader.

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Like ~1 year ago i fully wiped my laptop and started over with manjaro as my main (and the only) OS, and its awesome! But as with any linux distro, games are supported very barely, driver support is too low (even for ubuntu-based distros) and im a bit bored by playing only a few java games with 30 fps (while on windows they were at 60 always, likely driver issue).

Firstly i would like to say that im pretty sure that this question was asked many times before, but sadly i could find previous answers, so just linking another forums post is very appreciated too!

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