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> Everything else should probably be left to whatever is running at the initialization vector of the storage. Which, if you'd like, can be a complete UEFI implementation.

Putting it all in a single location on the storage device means that 1. Multibooting will always suck because Windows will unconditionally overwrite whatever is there with its own bootloader that only boots Windows, and 2. you now have to have local storage, which would be somewhat annoying to those of us trying to do diskless network boot (or anything else more interesting than "always boot internal disk0").



You always have local storage, even if it's a 128Mbit flash chip that stores the firmware. There's no network boot implemented in hardware.



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