Chapter 11

Boot Process, GRUB2, and the Linux Kernel

This chapter describes the following major topics:

Linux boot process: firmware, bootloader, kernel, and initialization

Understand and interact with GRUB2 to boot into different targets

Modify GRUB2 configuration

Boot system into specific targets

Reset lost or forgotten root user password

Linux kernel, ...

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