Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:01:37 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Jean-Christophe Varaillon <jcv@vbc.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot proccess Message-ID: <3BA9DAA1.BEC5D482@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10109191136390.13383-100000@brunel.uk1.vbc.net>
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Jean-Christophe Varaillon wrote: > > 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. apropos boot -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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