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2. System Startup and Initialization

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Subsections

• 2.1 Running the System
  • 2.1.1 Why you shouldn't be root.
  
  
• 2.2 Booting the System
  • 2.2.1 Boot floppy
    • 2.2.1.1 mkbootdisk
  • 2.2.2 LILO
    • 2.2.2.1 What is lilo
    • 2.2.2.2 Booting Basics
    • 2.2.2.3 LILO in the MBR
    • 2.2.2.4 Bios Limitations
    • 2.2.2.5 The boot prompt
    • 2.2.2.6 Boot command-line options
  • 2.2.3 GRUB
    • 2.2.3.1 Introduction
      • 2.2.3.1.1 Naming conventions
      • 2.2.3.1.2 How to boot operating systems
      • 2.2.3.1.3 Loading an operating system directly
      • 2.2.3.1.4 Configuration
      • 2.2.3.1.5 Creating a GRUB boot floppy
      • 2.2.3.1.6 The grub shell
      • 2.2.3.1.7 General commands
      • 2.2.3.1.8 Menu commands
      • 2.2.3.1.9 Summary
  • 2.2.4 Specifying boot time options
    • 2.2.4.0.1 How the kernel sorts arguments
    • 2.2.4.0.2 The `root=' Argument
    • 2.2.4.0.3 Other paramers
    • 2.2.4.0.4 IDE Disk/CD-ROM Driver Parameters
    • 2.2.4.0.5 Other Drivers
  • 2.2.5 Single User Mode
  
  
• 2.3 Starting the System
  • 2.3.1 System 5 init
    • 2.3.1.1 Inittab
    • 2.3.1.2 rc.sysinit
    • 2.3.1.3 /etc/init.d/functions
    • 2.3.1.4 Other scripts
    • 2.3.1.5 Managing runlevels - tools and references
    • 2.3.1.6 Packages and related docs
  • 2.3.2 Berkeley init
  
  
• 2.4 Shutting Down the System

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