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Re: Debian Boot Process



On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:01:02AM -0800, Kris wrote:
> Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18
> boot process works.  Ok ouch I will compare.  If for example I wanted to
> know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like

okay, so

- boot sector gets read from hard drive, instructs bios to load in kernel
  from specified location.

- kernel load ups, uses initrd if configured (and loads up modules found
  in initrd if needed)

- kernel mounts real root filesystem (ro), reads in /etd/modules, and
  loads those modules.

- kernel spawns off init

- the rest is in /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz


      hth
              sean

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