On Sunday 25 August 2002 03:05, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Selected responses only, below.
> Before I set up ide-scsi here, my CD burner worked just fine as a reader in > ide mode. That's exactly what I'd expect to be able to do. In fact,as I recall it, when I replaced my old 6x CD-ROM (IDE) drive with my LG cd-writer (also IDE), I don't think the system even 'noticed' the change.... it all worked exactly as before. I think I'll try to work back to the original IDE CD-ROM setup, and see how I go from there. [.....] > > > >Is this going to happen *every* time I upgrade? 8( > > Probably. You'll need to make notes about how you set this up and redo it > with every full-level (not incremental) upgrade. (Or you could switch to a > distro that does upgrades more gently, as Debian does ... but I digress.) Umm OK, this time I *will* take notes. :) > [...] > > >As a related question, is there anywhere on the Internet a page that > > explains (in simple language) what the boot-up sequence of Linux is (and > > XFree86 for that matter) and what files get read in what order? Man > > pages are always much too detailed and limited in scope to be easy to > > follow. > > You probably want to know about the init sequence, not the boot-up > sequence. Booting just involves getting the kernel running and starting the > init process. The init process (normally, and we can easily neglect the > exceptions for the moment) is governed by the directives in /etc/inittab. > Typically, these directives involve a three-step init process: > > 1. Init into single-user more and run a script. On my systems, and > pretty much every Linux system I've ever sern, this is a script called rcS. > Its location varies a bit; on my systems, the coverning line reads > "si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS". This script in turn runs other scripts; if > you understand shell scripting, you can follow the sequence by reading the > scripts. > > 2. Init into normal multi-user mode (governed by a runlevel > specification). This works the same way as step 1, except init runs a > different script, again as specified in inittab for the default or chosen > runlevel. On my systems, it is a line like "l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2" -- > which says run the script /etc/init.d/rc and pass to it the argument "2". > > 3. Run other processes specified for the chosen or default > runlevel. Typically these are just the tty processes that allow for console > logins (look for lines like "1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1"), but > some distros use this step to run an X-based login process like xdm or to > run consoles on serial ports. Thanks! I'll file this and print out a copy for reference. > I'm not sure if there is a general turorial on the boot/init process, but > were I looking for one, I'd look through the HowTos at (for example) > www.linuxdoc.org . I don't recall seeing one, but I'll check again. cr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
