The Process of Booting an Operating System

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Apr 2006 17:15 UTC, submitted by Puru Govind

"This write-up is intended to discuss the general principals involved in booting the operating system. We can define the booting process as something that starts an operating system when the user turns on his machine. This process, in addition to other factors, includes a boot sequence, which is a set of operations the system performs to load the OS."

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Initramfs

by smitty_one_each on Wed 12th Apr 2006 19:44 UTC

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2005-07-07

The linked article is a nice tease; I hope the author expands on the magic of creating an initramfs
http://lwn.net/Articles/156098/
when that time comes.

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too many ads

by Dima on Wed 12th Apr 2006 21:12 UTC

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2006-04-06

The article itself is ok...

But with all the flash, images, sponsored links, and popups over "computer", "CPU" and "software"... I'm sorry, I don't think it's worth it.

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short

by tummy on Thu 13th Apr 2006 03:53 UTC

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2005-09-14

The following are the terms we�ll use extensively throughout the article, and therefore it makes sense for us to define them below:

Hmm...."extensively"? That article ends on the next (and very short) page.

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Not that Bad!

by SatyamevJayate on Thu 13th Apr 2006 04:24 UTC

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2006-04-10

Hmm...This article is quite a good intro.. I am quite sure half of people even did not knew this much. Anyways I am quite sure the author will explain the other details(i.e. from boot loader to ....) in some other article. I am waiting for it osweekly

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wha....

by BluenoseJake on Thu 13th Apr 2006 12:38 UTC