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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
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To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
--Hooker.What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know.
--Byron.What boots to us your victories?
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To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.]
And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy modesty can beg.
--Shak.
Booting \Boot"ing\, n.
Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. [Obs.]
--Sir. J.
Harrington.
Booting \Boot"ing\, n.
A kind of torture. See Boot, n.,
2. A kicking, as with a booted foot. [U. S.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A kicking, as with a booted foot. 2 (context obsolete English) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. vb. (present participle of boot English)
Wikipedia
In computing, booting (or booting up) is the initialization of a computerized system. The system can be a computer or a computer appliance. The booting process can be "hard", after electrical power to the CPU is switched from off to on (in order to diagnose particular hardware errors), or " soft", when those power-on self-tests (POST) can be avoided. Soft booting can be initiated by hardware such as a button press, or by software command. Booting is complete when the normal, operative, runtime environment is attained.
A boot loader is a computer program that loads an operating system or some other system software for the computer after completion of the power-on self-tests; it is the loader for the operating system itself. Within the hard reboot process, it runs after completion of the self-tests, then loads and runs the software. A boot loader is loaded into main memory from persistent memory, such as a hard disk drive or, in some older computers, from a medium such as punched cards, punched tape, or magnetic tape. The boot loader then loads and executes the processes that finalize the boot. Like POST processes, the boot loader code comes from a "hard-wired" and persistent location; if that location is too limited for some reason, that primary boot loader calls a second-stage boot loader or a secondary program loader.
On modern general purpose computers, the boot up process can take tens of seconds, and typically involves performing a power-on self-test, locating and initializing peripheral devices, and then finding, loading and starting an operating system. The process of hibernating or sleeping does not involve booting. Minimally, some embedded systems do not require a noticeable boot sequence to begin functioning and when turned on may simply run operational programs that are stored in ROM. All computing systems are state machines, and a reboot may be the only method to return to a designated zero-state from an unintended, locked state.
Boot is short for bootstrap or bootstrap load and derives from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. The usage calls attention to the requirement that, if most software is loaded onto a computer by other software already running on the computer, some mechanism must exist to load the initial software onto the computer. Early computers used a variety of ad-hoc methods to get a small program into memory to solve this problem. The invention of read-only memory (ROM) of various types solved this paradox by allowing computers to be shipped with a start up program that could not be erased. Growth in the capacity of ROM has allowed ever more elaborate start up procedures to be implemented.
Usage examples of "booting".
Mat hesitated a moment before booting Pips to follow, but Rhuarc and the Taardad sept chiefs, each with his ten, stepped off with the dapple.
Ryan was leaping up the first flight, booting down on the prone body of the first man and clutching at the corner pole of the banister, yanking himself up and around and grabbing the third man as he tottered forward on the rebound from the wall.
Pretty soon Padre Sinkovich, who had unearthed enough skeletons to start a mail-order Hal-loween business, was staggering around with bloodshot delirious eyes, furiously booting innumerable bones every which way as the magnificent tintinnabulation somewhere down there literally drove him bananas.
While my laptop was booting on the trestle table, I took a bite of one of the strawberry salads - still half-liquid - and tasted the curry sauce, which was spicy-hot, creamy, and mellowing superbly.
Pertra, decisively standing up and booting his way to the filing-cabinets.
Doc’s bootings brought to light an automatic pistol, a large weapon, of foreign manufacture.
It has dropped out somehow or other in the various revisions – the bootings occurred at Rivendell.
Lord and all this year's conspicuous tech-wonks in mounting the heaters and stringing the lights and running coaxial shunts with ceramic jacks between the Pump Room's main breaker and the Sunstrand grid and booting up the circulation-fans and pneumatic hoists that'll raise the Lung to the inflated shape of a distended igloo, sixteen courts in four rows of four, enclosed and warmed by nothing but fibrous Gore-Tex and AC current and an enormous ATHSCME Exhaust-Flow Effectuator that an ATHSCME crew in one of the ATHSCME helicopters will bring in in a sling and cable and mount and secure on the Lung's nipply nacelle at the top of the inflating dome.
However, systems that are configured to allow booting to other operating systems, may want to ensure that system page file is wiped clean when Windows NT shuts down.
Right when it starts booting up, start pressing the Pause Break key and do not let it detect your drives.
She was already a third of the way to the door-what did she care about a Mac booting up?
During the process of booting up, the screen was briefly a most curious shade of green.
It wasn't very long before we had Oharu stretched out on his bed with his arms and legs duct-taped together and I was booting up Jesse's computer, which I had found in Oharu's desk drawer.
Cassie heard the familiar whirring sound of the computer booting up.
He could look back on a past with function keys and five-and-a-quarter-inch disks, and when booting up your computer meant a whole series of commands and disturbing messages (bad command or file name).