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The Linux startup process

Date and Time

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Location

MIT Building E51, Room 315

Presenter

Jerry Feldman, Associate Director, Boston Linux & Unix - gaf blu org

Summary

Jerry describes the Linux boot process step-by-step, from the BIOS to grub to init to runlevels

Abstract

Jerry presents a talk he gave at Hewlett-Packard a while back: a detailed review of the Linux boot process, starting with the BIOS.

Attachments

1. Jerry's slides (OpenOffice)
2. Jerry's slides (PDF)