Re: A survey of boot process in Debian on i386 with Legacy BIOS
On 09/23/2017 09:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I want a very custom installer. I'm looking for something
> that takes a broad view of the boot process. [...]
I don't know of any x86/BIOS/Debian-centric doc that meets your needs.
Here are some related docs (includes EFI/UEFI not just BIOS, some of
these are still useful for BIOS boot background). HTH
http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html
http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484200711
https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#debian-installer_support
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/intel-boot-loader-development-kit/minimal-intel-architecture-boot-loader-paper.html
http://www.linux-kvm.org/downloads/lersek/ovmf-whitepaper-c770f8c.txt
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxboot/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_startup_process
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/kernel-boot-process/
https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/Booting/linux-bootstrap-1.html
https://lwn.net/Articles/632528/
http://wiki.osdev.org/System_Initialization_(x86)
https://firmware.intel.com/learn/fsp/about-intel-fsp
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_boot_process
https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot
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