boot loader

In this tutorial, you learn about cross-compiling, the boot loader, file systems, the root file system, disk images, and the boot process, all with respect to the decisions you make as you're building the ...

As it turns out, there isn’t much to the boot process:1. A boot loader finds the kernel image on the disk, loads it into memory, and starts it.2.

The kernel initializes the devices and its drivers.3. The kernel mounts the root filesystem.4. The kernel starts a program called init.5. init sets the rest of the processes in motion.

In this tutorial, you learn about cross-compiling, the boot loader, file systems, the root file system, disk images, and the boot process, all with respect to the decisions you make as you're building the system and creating the distribution.

The issue I faced was that I had lost GRUB (the boot loader) when I reformatted my C drive (Windows XP). Since Ubuntu was installed on a separate NTFS partition, I could tell that it was still available.

Polish Linux: "How does the system startup look like? This question usually does not come into mind of a normal computer user.

Oh, he presses the power button, goes to the kitchen to make a coffee and when he comes back, the password can be entered on the screen in the prepared field.

Sometimes however, in the minds of a bit more keen computer enthusiasts, the question is born “how does it actually work?”"

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."