Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:25:26 -0800 (PST) From: Eileen Soong <eysoong@unixg.ubc.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Boot Process in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980331101204.3383A-100000@netinfo1.ubc.ca>
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Hi there,
I'm an undergraduate in Computer Science currently doing a research
project for an advanced OS course I'm taking. My topic is to do a
comparative study of the boot process of FreeBSD and Linux. I need to
find out how processes are started and what are started at boot time.
>From what I understand, Linux uses System V Init as its standard and the
the "init" program is the one that start up processes at boot
time and respawn processes when they die. The behaviour of
"init" is based on /etc/inittab. Also, Linux uses the runlevels
(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,s) to implement different modes and states (eg. single
user, multiuser mode without NFS, full multiuser mode, etc).
However, I have not been successful in find the FreeBSD counterparts of:
- System V Init
- /etc/inittab (control file for "init")
- runlevel mechanism
It has been quite difficult to hunt down information on the Internet on my
topic. Perhaps I was not looking at the right place...
Please help me out. I really appreciate any assistance you may provide.
Thanks in advance.
Eileen Soong
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