From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 24 9:22:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from brunel.uk1.vbc.net (brunel.uk1.vbc.net [194.207.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D178337B40A for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jcv@localhost) by brunel.uk1.vbc.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8OGMCD39934; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:22:13 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: brunel.uk1.vbc.net: jcv owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:22:12 +0100 (BST) From: Jean-Christophe Varaillon X-Sender: jcv@brunel.uk1.vbc.net To: Marco Wertejuk Cc: freebsd-hackers@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot proccess In-Reply-To: <20010920000212.B60704@localhost.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello, > > | In short, which program gives enough knowledge to the microprocessor (?) > | and allow him to use kern.flp & mfsroot.flp in order to boot and make the > | operating system running. > > your BIOS reads the first sektor from your floppy which consists > of a boot loader, which usually loads the 2nd step boot loader > and this one loads the kernel. Tell me if I am wrong but from the floppy, the files kern.flp & mfsroot.flp are compressed and then uncompressed into memory. If so, that means that the FreeBSD box is running this programs from the RAM and not from the floppy, right ? If so, is it possible to do the same but from a hard disk instead of the floppy ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message