“This write-up is intended to discuss the general principals involved in booting the operating system. We can define the booting process as something that starts an operating system when the user turns on his machine. This process, in addition to other factors, includes a boot sequence, which is a set of operations the system performs to load the OS.”
The linked article is a nice tease; I hope the author expands on the magic of creating an initramfs
http://lwn.net/Articles/156098/
when that time comes.
The article itself is ok…
But with all the flash, images, sponsored links, and popups over “computer”, “CPU” and “software”… I’m sorry, I don’t think it’s worth it.
The following are the terms we’ll use extensively throughout the article, and therefore it makes sense for us to define them below:
Hmm….”extensively”? That article ends on the next (and very short) page.
Hmm…This article is quite a good intro.. I am quite sure half of people even did not knew this much. Anyways I am quite sure the author will explain the other details(i.e. from boot loader to ….) in some other article. I am waiting for it osweekly
Man, that was disappointing
i agree
This is nothing more than plagerism … this was directly copied (almost word for word) from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting
Actually the wikipedia article os more informative
may be the wikipedia article was copied from here. Guys take a break!