From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux OS boilerplate
Date: 17 May 2001 23:14:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e2ekt$3ua$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A902F77.8BF6AB52@teleport.com> <3A90E16D.DB868F2@yahoo.com>
Followup to: <3A90E16D.DB868F2@yahoo.com>
By author: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Does there exist an outline (detailed or not) of the boot process from
> > the point of BIOS bootsector load to when the kernel proper begins
>
> IIRC, there is some useful info contained within loadlin. Also, I
> found a doc by hpa called "THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL" in my local
> archive of cruft - I just assumed it was in Documentation/ but
> apparently it never made it there (yet).
>
Documentation/i386/boot.txt
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-18 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-18 20:24 Linux OS boilerplate Scott Long
2001-02-18 20:32 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-18 21:46 ` TeknoDragon
2001-02-19 1:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-19 10:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-02-22 1:24 ` Tim Wright
2001-02-19 9:03 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-02-20 4:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-18 6:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-05-18 7:24 ` Linux scalability? Sasi Peter
2001-05-18 8:12 ` reiser.angus
2001-05-18 8:30 ` Ronald Bultje
2001-05-18 8:30 ` reiser.angus
2001-05-18 9:05 ` Ronald Bultje
2001-05-18 19:28 ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-05-18 19:38 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-18 19:46 ` Peter Rival
2001-05-18 19:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-18 20:06 ` Peter Rival
2001-05-18 20:13 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-18 21:36 ` J Sloan
2001-05-19 8:26 ` Sasi Peter
2001-05-18 8:17 ` Sean Hunter
2001-05-18 21:18 ` Rodger Donaldson
2001-05-19 8:31 ` Sasi Peter
2001-05-21 10:42 ` Sean Hunter
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2001-02-18 21:13 Linux OS boilerplate Rick Hohensee
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