Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:55:23 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Rouan van Dalen <rvdalen@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Internals Message-ID: <20031013175523.GA8912@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20031012163226.63067.qmail@web86106.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20031012163226.63067.qmail@web86106.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:32:26PM +0100, Rouan van Dalen wrote: > What I need now is the most detailed & in-depth information on > FreeBSD's boot sequence. more specifically : > > 1) What files are related to the FreeBSD boot process. > 2) What is each files purpose > 3) What order are the files loaded & executed > 4) What exactly does the boot manager look for. > 5) The structure of the FreeBSD boot record. > 6) Source code of the boot record & boot manager, etc. A lot of the information you are looking for is in: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/ See the chapter on "Bootstrapping and kernel initialization". Have you looked that over yet? -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20031013175523.GA8912>