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Lecture 10 review

Lecture 10 review. Booting sequence in Brief A CPU jumps to a fixed address in ROM, Loads the BIOS, What does BIOS do? Performs POST, Loads MBR from the boot device, Loads an OS loader, Loads the kernel image, Sets the kernel mode, and Jumps to the OS entry point. Linux Initialization.

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Lecture 10 review

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  1. Lecture 10 review • Booting sequence in Brief • A CPU jumps to a fixed address in ROM, • Loads the BIOS, • What does BIOS do? • Performs POST, • Loads MBR from the boot device, • Loads an OS loader, • Loads the kernel image, • Sets the kernel mode, and • Jumps to the OS entry point.

  2. Linux Initialization • Set up a number of things: • Trap table • Interrupt handlers • Scheduler • Clock • Kernel modules • … • Process manager • Hand-craft environment for the init process (the first process, process 1).

  3. Process 1 • Is instantiated from the init program • Is the ancestor of all processes • Controls transitions between runlevels • Executes startup and shutdown scripts for each runlevel

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