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Date:      Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:04:50 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Marco Wertejuk <wertejuk@mwcis.com>
Cc:        Jean-Christophe Varaillon <jcv@vbc.net>, freebsd-hackers@FREEBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot proccess 
Message-ID:  <200109212304.f8LN4ol04157@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Marco Wertejuk <wertejuk@mwcis.com>  of "Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:02:12 -0000." <20010920000212.B60704@localhost.com> 

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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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