Boston Linux & UNIX was originally founded in 1994 as part of The Boston Computer Society. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month, online, via Jitsi Meet.

The Linux startup process

Date and Time

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

Location

MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Presenters

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.

Meeting Notes

Attachments

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

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