From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 20 4:57:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [209.155.56.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC5237B407 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 04:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (ppp232-bsace7002.telebrasilia.net.br [200.181.81.232]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA19864; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 04:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BA9DAA1.BEC5D482@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:01:37 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean-Christophe Varaillon Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot proccess References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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