From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 19 15: 2:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from shinatama.hayai.de (tekkno.tv [212.222.165.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0013437B40A for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from marco@localhost) by shinatama.hayai.de (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f8K02C760884; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:02:12 GMT (envelope-from marco) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:02:12 +0000 From: Marco Wertejuk To: Jean-Christophe Varaillon Cc: freebsd-hackers@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot proccess Message-ID: <20010920000212.B60704@localhost.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jcv@vbc.net on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:58:26AM +0100 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. -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Marco Wertejuk - mwcis.com Computer/Internet/Security-Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message