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by lump_16 Sep 13, 2000 last reply Nov 9, 2000

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Hi,
I'm doing a report on the Linux boot process vs. the windows boot.

I know windows pretty good but I'm not as familiar with Linux. So I'm looking for any websites that will help me understand and explain the boot process in Linux.

Thanks for any help,
Brian Wright
Computer Information Systems student
Terra Community College
Fremont, Ohio

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by dgleis Sep 14, 2000

a good place to start is the Linux Documentation Project, you can find just about everything there.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/

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by zbrain75 Sep 26, 2000

http://ctdp.tripod.com/os/linux/howlinuxworks/index.html
Describes the boot process in detail. Also I think there is a relatively new HOWTO at the LDP that explains some of booting. Other than that it is helpful to read the man pages on lilo, init, getty or mingetty, login, and the shell such as bash.

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by bill.helke Oct 10, 2000

Nothing is easy. Different distributions do the boot process differently. RedHat describes their SysVInit flavor quite well in their User's guide. Here's a link for their 6.2 version:

http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-sysadmin-boot.html

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