February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
18h 33m
English
In this chapter, you will learn about:
• The bootstrap phase
• The bootloader phase
• The kernel phase
• System V
• systemd
To make the Linux boot process more easily digestible, we’re going to break it down into the following phases:
• The bootstrap phase
• The bootloader phase
• The kernel phase
• System initialization
Figure 11-1 illustrates the BIOS boot process. Boot-specific messages are written to /var/log/boot.log. The systemd command journalctl -b will display boot messages from your last boot, but may also be configured to store boot logs from previous boots.

Figure 11-1 ...
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