Chapter 28System Booting
System booting is a fairly large topic that incorporates the operations that take place during the boot process. In this chapter, you learn about the different stages of system booting, including the boot loader phase, the kernel loading phase, and the “init” phase.
After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:
Describe the four stages of the boot process
Configure Legacy GRUB and GRUB 2
Modify key components of the kernel
Load and unload kernel modules
Modify services that are enabled at boot
Phases of the Boot Process
The boot process of a Linux operating system has four primary phases:
BIOS/UEFI phase
Boot loader phase
Kernel phase
Post-kernel phase
The BIOS/UEFI ...
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