From: tyler@tysdomain.com (Littlefield, Tyler)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Need basics of booting process
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:41:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E19D61D.8000902@tysdomain.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACZhsRgbTip9FueTx1Awyt2pb+xULrBx9ZCN63BPt5pK9OAiww@mail.gmail.com>
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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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-10 16:37 Need basics of booting process Niamathullah sharief
2011-07-10 16:41 ` Littlefield, Tyler [this message]
2011-07-11 3:16 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-07-11 3:20 ` Fwd: " Mulyadi Santosa
2011-07-11 8:32 ` amit mehta
2011-07-12 14:04 ` Niamathullah sharief
2011-07-12 18:07 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-07-12 19:41 ` Pavan Kandepet
2011-07-13 13:03 ` Tapas Mishra
[not found] ` <53F511E8-D0EC-4B65-B18A-AACD2A187957@gmail.com>
2011-09-15 16:34 ` CPU pinning Kernel Piddu
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2011-07-11 7:28 Need basics of booting process Rigved Rakshit
2011-07-11 8:02 ` Mandeep Sandhu
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