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From: Jean-Christophe Varaillon <jcv@vbc.net>
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Subject: Boot proccess
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Hi,

Newbie, I need to understand the differents steps of a booting process
from the 2 floppies (kern.flp & mfsroot.flp).

How it comes and the FreeBSD machine can understand the fact that it has
to find kern.flp & mfsroot.flp from the floppy, uncompress them, load them
in the RAM and make them running ?

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.

Thanks in advance.

Christophe.


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