On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 08:44:34PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Richard Weinberger > <richard.weinber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Thiago Farina <tfrans...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does the kernel include a simple boot loader like FreeBSD does? > > > > Why don't you figure yourself? > > > I think it doesn't. I just wanted someone to confirm my thought. > Does the FreeBSD kernel really include a boot loader ? Surely the loader is what reads the kernel into memory and then hands control to it.
If you look at FreeBSD as a whole, it has a boot loader for whichever architecture it was built for. But linux is only the kernel - different distros (in this context, android could be regarded as a distro) and most importantly different architectures or platforms all do different things - in my fairly-limited experience I've used grub, lilo, uboot, yaboot - there are many others. But please remember that asking general questions not related to kernel development on this list is generally regarded as off-topic. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
