Very helpful, thanks! BTW, I'm running mandrake.
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot sequence question...
> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > I am having a terrible time learning what the boot process is for linux,
ie:
> >
> > -What scripts are run
> > -What order they run
> > -Location of boot scripts
> >
> > Can anyone help or point me to a good explanation of the boot process?
>
> You dont say which flavor of linux you have but considering the
> mailing list your mail came from i tak it you have either Redhat of
> mandrake, ok i know there just about the same.
>
> To start off lilo will boot the kernel of your choise, the kernel
> will then continue as per 'dmesg', type just after booting 'dmesg'
> (without quotes of course), it will show you what the kernel finds
> out about your mother board etc. It then gets to where drives are
> mounted, thats where the scripts come into action, you may have
> noticed on your own machine that you got a messages saying "maximal
> mount count reached check forced". That information is stored on each
> partition, fsck the program whcih does the checking has then looked
> into /etc/fstab and checked the 5th and 6th fields, those are the
> fileds which tell fsck what to do.
>
> After the disks have been mounted, /etc/inittab is read the first
> line is normaly;
> id:3:initdefault:
> Which tells the system to start in runlevel 3, before it actualy
> starts to boot into runlevel 3 otherwise known as init3 /etc/rc.d/rc
> is read then rc.sysinit takes over it reads the system configuration
> files found in /etc/sysconfig/ * from there things like keyboard
> mouse clock and network options are set.. It then executes the
> scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ after that all the daemons
> are started from /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ .
> That is a short but explanatry message, i hope i have not confused
> the issue but typing one or another file in the wrong order, i
> dont think so, anyway that is basicly how linux starts.
>
>
> > Thanks!
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
