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