Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Martin Dickopp
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) writes: > So, Is the boot-loader so smart and powerful (much more that the > kernel) that it reads data from the disk without knowing the type of > disk and the filesystem type ? I mean the kernel requires modu

Re: How does linux boot - simple

2004-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > 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. initrd is optional and NOT required modules is optional and NOT requir

Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 October 2004 01:19 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) writes: > > The computer is on. The BIOS loads the boot-loader. The boot-loader > > loads the kernel image

Re: How does linux boot - best way 2 figure it out

2004-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Now here is what confuses me ! best way to learn how a PC boots.. take the dumb/silly/antiquated BIOS and throw it away ... - now figure out how it boots - the CPU does jump to 0x as its first instruction after

Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 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

Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Now here is what confuses me ! > Say, My machine has a scsi disk in it. In normal scenarios it's obvious that > I'll be using a modular kernel with initrd support shipped by my Linux > distribution vendor. Fine till now. > > OS installation is done.

Re: How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ritesh On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > This is the way I understand. > 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

How does linux boot

2004-10-22 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I know the subject of this email might be pretty simple. But I've really got confused as to how Linux (or other OS's work). I'll be specific to linux. This is the way I understand. The computer is on. The BIOS loads the boot-loader. The boot-loade