Computer Boot Up Process

Courtesy Linux Today  Wed, 07/16/2008 - 18:30

OSNews: "Gustav Duarte has written a three part article about the computer boot up process. The series starts with the Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map of an Intel computer and then he covers the processes that take place from the BIOS initialization to the boot loader.

The final part is the coverage of the Kernel Boot Process."


 

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