Post #4121429
2026-07-26 21:21 UTC
i wonder how long it'll be before MS finally kills off BIOS bootmgr because it's just got too big
they've already had to save 2KB by removing an exception handler register dump, and even with that the whole binary uses 70% of 640KB
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@jernej__s@infosec.exchange 2026-07-26 21:30
@Rairii@labyrinth.zone How many servers are still booting in BIOS mode?
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@Rairii@labyrinth.zone 2026-07-26 21:32
and for bios bootmgr specifically some features are out in separate dlls to keep bootmgr.exe smaller
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@gudenau@hachyderm.io 2026-07-27 01:50
@Rairii@labyrinth.zone This might be me being out of touch and the biggest bootloader I've ever looked at being the Wii ones... How do you use that much space on what should just be some signature checks and a basic filesystem driver? Am I missing other functionality it would need?