Re: How does linux boot

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Subject: Re: How does linux boot
From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:49:02 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 200410221237.29523.riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net> (Ritesh Raj Sarraf's message of "Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:37:27 +0530")
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net>(by way of Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net>) writes:

> The computer is on. The BIOS loads the boot-loader. The boot-loader
> loads the kernel image. If the kernel image has modules, initrd also
> gets loaded so that appropriate modules can be loaded for the kernel
> to identify the hardware, filesystems etc etc...

BIOS does a POST, and if successful, hands off to the bootloader.  The
bootloader loads the kernel image, then the initrd.  Kernel then
starts running, loads modules.
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