Insight into GNU/Linux boot process

Courtesy Linux Today  Sun, 03/21/2010 - 18:02

Musing with GNU/Linux: "In this document we will take a look at the different aspects of the boot process.

Such as the BIOS which is the first code which runs, the boot loaders that can load different operating systems, pass arguments to the kernel, load it from different sources like a hard drive, a flash, and network & finally the kernel itself."

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