Linux System Administration
The Boot Process
What happens when we turn on our workstation and try to boot into Linux?
The BIOS checks the system.
The Boot loader finds the kernel image, loads it into memory, and starts it.
initrd is a file system loaded in at boot time that loads drivers to get the kernel going.
The kernel initializes devices and their drivers.
The kernel mounts the root filesystem.
The kernel starts the
init
program.
init
gets the rest of the processes started
The last process that
init
starts will allow you to login.
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