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Hm, kinda? if id compare the wii booting process then id say grub is part boot2, part later stuff. Boot0 is arm cpu bootrom, boot1 is like a mbr, first page on nand, boot2 is more like a step between boot1 and ios and handles backwards compatability stuff on top of booting mios ( gamecube mode if you will ) or system menu ( the wii main menu ). When it boots system menu, boot2 loads the correct “kernel” (ios) which boots system menu on the other (ppc) cpu. So ye, it decides what to boot, but it only sets up a single file that tells the ios what to boot hehe.
It doesnt do any hardware inits or checks at all unlike bios/grub.
boot2? That sounds a lot like the grub1 loading process…
Hm, kinda? if id compare the wii booting process then id say grub is part boot2, part later stuff. Boot0 is arm cpu bootrom, boot1 is like a mbr, first page on nand, boot2 is more like a step between boot1 and ios and handles backwards compatability stuff on top of booting mios ( gamecube mode if you will ) or system menu ( the wii main menu ). When it boots system menu, boot2 loads the correct “kernel” (ios) which boots system menu on the other (ppc) cpu. So ye, it decides what to boot, but it only sets up a single file that tells the ios what to boot hehe.
It doesnt do any hardware inits or checks at all unlike bios/grub.