Everyone knows that if we load our BIOS incorrectly, our computer will be bricked.So why don't we have access to the very first input that ultimately loads the boot sequence?Shouldn't our computer give us the option to display a blinking cursor after powering on, waiting for our first input?
>>106866795Oy vey goy, that's too much control! Pay me $300 for a new mainboard or pay $200 to my licensed technician (because your BIOS got conveniently corrupted 2 days after the warranty ended).First computers had that, but then i beat minorities made the pee sea and locked down everything on it.
>>106866795The BIOS (UEFI nowadays) no longer just boots into your OS. There's tons of hardware initialization it has to do, the chipset itself is it's own SoC with a really complex setup. Then you got stuff inside your CPU, usually something like the intel management engine or TPM or PSP or a billion other things that all need their firmware blobs before the actual CPU ever gets to run its first instruction.It's a gigantic, proprietary mess all stacked on top of the old mess, because engineers don't get paid to clean up old code, they get paid to ship new product.
>>106868034The bigger reason old shit doesn't get cleaned up is backwards compatibility. As you said a PC is an incredibly complex system and getting everyone involved in the manufacture to adopt new standards and implement them correctly takes time, so everyone also leaves backwards compatibility in their shit to make sure their stuff still works with laggards.
>>106866795>our computerLMAO
>>106867977Literally every $50 motherboard has auto UEFI recovery from USB these days.
>>106867977kek
