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Re: Boot procedure docs
On Thursday 03 July 2003 13:34, Juraj Wagner wrote:
> You may try "http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lki/index.html"
>
> > I'm trying to understand how a kernel boots on a x86 system, not
> > regarding any loaders that have done their job before.
> > Till now, I've checked initrd.txt, linuxboot-current.ps, tlki, lxr sites,
> > init/*.c and groups.google.com - there are still some questions:
Thanks, Juraj,
as you can see from the snippet above, I _HAVE_ checked tlki, but the
description there ends with the call of rest_init().
Seems, I chose the wrong description - with 'boot procedure' - I actually
meant the mount operations within that procedure. Sorry, I'm a newbie ;-)
So, what I am interested in, is the code in that do_mounts.c (in 2.4.19, in
older kernels like 2.4.4 that file doesn't exist), especially the routine
prepare_namespace(), which is called from the init() thread before exec'uting
/sbin/init or similar.
MS
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