Re: Linux OS boilerplate

H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-18T06:15:35Z

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

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