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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