Part 2  
 
The Boot Process  
5 LILO: From "power on" to "Loading linux..."
5.1 The Four Steps of the Booting Process
5.1.1 Hardware initialization
5.1.2 Bootloader/System selection
5.1.3 Kernel initialization
5.1.4 Invocation of init
5.2 Introducing LILO
5.2.1 The map installer
5.2.2 Data files
5.2.3 The boot loader
5.3 Installing LILO
5.3.1 YaST configures LILO
5.3.2 Going further with additional options
5.4 Lilo loads Linux
5.5 Linux: The kernel takes the stage
6 The init process: the kernel needs company
6.1 Runlevels
6.1.1 0: System halt
6.1.2 S: Single-user mode
6.1.3 1: Multi-user without network
6.1.4 2: Multi-user with network
6.1.5 3: Multi-user with network and graphical login
6.1.6 4,5: not used
6.1.7 6: System reboot
6.2 System V init
6.3 Shutting down the system
7 Customizing the boot process
7.1 Writing rc-scripts
7.2 Adding an rc-script to a runlevel
7.3 Creating customized runlevels

Copyright (c) 1999 by Terrehon Bowden and Bodo Bauer
To contact the author please sent mail to bb@bb-zone.com