For anyone who actually would like to know how modern machine boots, in a way which is practical and not just theoretical, this article is probably the best there is.
Definitely recommended for someone coming from the legacy BIOS boot background, expecting UEFI to be the same. (Hint: It isn't)
Basically while legacy booting has too many black boxes and black magic (from an end-user perspective) to be practical to work with, UEFI is actually inspectable and debuggable. If something fails, you can figure out why.
Best of all: Creating live USBs/CDs/whatever no longer requires special tools. Just copy the everything, including the EFI folder, and its automatically bootable.
Definitely recommended for someone coming from the legacy BIOS boot background, expecting UEFI to be the same. (Hint: It isn't)
Basically while legacy booting has too many black boxes and black magic (from an end-user perspective) to be practical to work with, UEFI is actually inspectable and debuggable. If something fails, you can figure out why.
Best of all: Creating live USBs/CDs/whatever no longer requires special tools. Just copy the everything, including the EFI folder, and its automatically bootable.
UEFI is awesome.