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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:28:35 -0500
From: Sridhar Chellappa <schellap@spinnakernet.com>
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Subject: freeBSD bootup sequence.
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Hi,

Iam a kernel hacker trying to venture into the freeBSD world for the 
first time. I would like to know if there is some doc which describes 
the FreeBSD bootup sequence, the memory allocators used. any help here 
will be appreciated.

Sridhar Chellappa.