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Linux Essentials for Cybersecurity
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Linux Essentials for Cybersecurity

by William Rothwell, Denise Kinsey
July 2018
Beginner
704 pages
23h 51m
English
Pearson IT Certification
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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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