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Booting and Shutting Down |
As the complexity in modern-day operating systems has grown, so has the complexity in starting up and shutting down processes. Not only does the hardware need to be initialized and the core operating system need to be brought up and shut down, but an impressive list of services and processes must also be started and stopped at the right moment.
In this chapter, we discuss the bootstrapping of the Linux operating system with GRUB. We then step through the processes of starting up and shutting down the Linux environment. We discuss the scripts that automate parts of these processes, as well as modifications that may sometimes be desirable in the scripts. We finish up with coverage of a few odds and ends ...
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