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To: Marco Wertejuk <wertejuk@mwcis.com>
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Subject: Re: Boot proccess 
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From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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> 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.

Not quite.  The second stage bootstrap loads /boot/loader, which reads
/boot/loader.rc, which is what causes the kernel and mfsroot to be loaded.

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