Boot process

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Revision as of 12:39, 11 January 2014 by imported>ThorstenStaerk

How Linux typically starts up on a PC

  • you switch on the computer
BIOS is shown and the devices are check
  • the master boot record is executed
  • the boot loader is executed
  • the Linux kernel is executed
  • the initrd is loaded/executed
  • the init program is started
  • the SysV init script are executed
    • one of them is dbus
  • X Windowing system is started
  • login manager is started
  • user session incl. Desktop environment is started

See also