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Booting and System Management Daemons |
“Booting” is the standard term for “starting up a computer.” It’s a shortened form of the word “bootstrapping,” which derives from the notion that the computer has to “pull itself up by its own bootstraps.”
The boot process consists of a few broadly defined tasks:
- Finding, loading, and running bootstrapping code
- Finding, loading, and running the OS kernel
- Running startup scripts and system daemons
- Maintaining process hygiene and managing system state transitions
The activities included in that last bullet point continue as long as the system remains up, so the line between bootstrapping ...
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