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Wikipedia, Power On Self Test, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_self-test
- 2.
Wikipedia, BIOS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS
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Wikipedia, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
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Wikipedia, Master Boot Record, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
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Backups are discussed in Chapter 18 of Volume 2.
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GNU, GRUB, www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub
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Wikipedia, GNU GRUB, www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-documentation.html
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Wikipedia, GUID Partition Table, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
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Red Hat Bugzilla, https://bugzilla.redhat.com
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Wikipedia, systemd, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd
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Yes, systemd should always be spelled like this without any uppercase even at the beginning of a sentence. The documentation for systemd is very clear about this.
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Wikipedia, Runlevel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel
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Hard and soft links are covered in detail in Chapter 18 in this volume. A symlink is the same as a soft link.
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Freedesktop.org, systemd bootup process, www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/bootup.html
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Freedesktop.org, systemd index of man pages, www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/index.html
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Wikipedia, X Display Manager, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_display_manager_(program_type)
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Wikipedia, Simple desktop Display Manager, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Desktop_Display_Manager
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Wikipewdia, X Window Manager, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_window_manager
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Wikipedia, X Window System, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
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Wikipedia, Wayland, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)
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The icon on your version of lightdm might be different. It changed for me at least once after installing updates.
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Both, D. (2020). Linux Boot and Startup. In: Using and Administering Linux: Volume 1. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5049-5_16
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