Need basics of booting process

[Littlefield, Tyler]

On 7/10/2011 10:37 AM, Niamathullah sharief wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I want to know the basics linux booting process. I googled for this 
> but i didn't find the detailed things anywhere. I want to know the 
> boot process including the hardware work flow. Can anyone give me the 
> detailed tutorial to learn about this.
>
First, when you power up the system the bios goes through a POST, which 
is power-on self test. This just checks that hardware is working, etc. 
Then it looks for a boot sektor, which must be 512 bytes long and end 
with a magic number, and loads the kernel. From there, you can look at 
the head.s assembly, and I think someone posted a tutorial here a while 
back--maybe they'll post that again.

> Thank you
>
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