Describe the initial process sequence while the system
boots up?

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Describe the initial process sequence while the system boots up?..

Answer / sunil negi

–Hardware Boot
–Read boot block (block 0) and load to memory
–Transfer control to kernel
–Kernel initialization
–Mount the root file system on / and create
environment for process 0
–Process 0 invokes process 1(init process)
–init process invokes process getty
–gettyinvokes login

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Describe the initial process sequence while the system boots up?..

Answer / guest

Whenever the system boots up, daemons are initialised.
The first process that gets initialised is scheduler (PID
0). This in turn initialises init process (PID 1)
vhand,bdflush are the other processes that get initialised
when the system boots up.

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Describe the initial process sequence while the system boots up?..

Answer / satish

1) BIOS
2) Master Boot Record (MBR)
3) LILO or GRUB
4) Kernel
5) init
6) Run Levels

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Describe the initial process sequence while the system boots up?..

Answer / guest

a program called bootstrap loader is executed

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