Boots And Shutdowns
This chapter discusses the booting and shutdown procedure for a computer system. The section explains what goes on when a Linux system is brought up and taken down, and how it should be done properly. If proper procedures are not followed, files might be corrupted or lost. It includes the intricacies of booting, shutdown and rebooting process. It discusses the single user mode and requirement of emergency boot floppies.

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A Guided Tour Of A Linux Boot This article includes a guided tour of a Linux Boot. It interprets the various messages output by firmware and software programs as the computer and Linux come to life. These notes attempt to help clarify what routines and devices are doing. The guide is written by Craig Van Degrift in 1999.
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A Look At System V Initialization
This article takes a look at System V initialization. It is written by Mayank Sarup in 2001. This article is targeted for novice users and it strives to clear up a few doubts. It explains the concept of runlevels, initialization scripts and the significance of etcrc.d. The article takes a brief look at runlevels and the System V style of booting that most Linux distributions use at present.

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How Your Computer Boots
This article explains how a computer boots in a comprehensible timeline based approach. This excerpt from Understanding the Linux Kernel by Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati explains computer start process, how a Linux kernel image is copied into memory and executed. It discusses how the kernel and the system, is "bootstrapped. It starts with prehistoric age of BIOS and end with modern start_kernel( ) function.

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