From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tyler@tysdomain.com (Littlefield, Tyler) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:41:01 -0600 Subject: Need basics of booting process In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E19D61D.8000902@tysdomain.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies -- Take care, Ty my website: http://tds-solutions.net my blog: http://tds-solutions.net/blog skype: st8amnd127 My programs don't have bugs; they're randomly added features! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20110710/b4c3c787/attachment.html