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2.2 Booting the System

In this section we cover various methods for booting the system, go into detail about the initialization system for Linux, and a brief overview of managing runlevels. We show you how to properly shutdown and reboot your system.

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Subsections

• 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

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