Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Linux OS boilerplate | Date | 17 May 2001 23:14:53 -0700 |
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Followup to: <3A90E16D.DB868F2@yahoo.com> By author: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Does there exist an outline (detailed or not) of the boot process from > > the point of BIOS bootsector load to when the kernel proper begins > > IIRC, there is some useful info contained within loadlin. Also, I > found a doc by hpa called "THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL" in my local > archive of cruft - I just assumed it was in Documentation/ but > apparently it never made it there (yet). >
Documentation/i386/boot.txt
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