Deep Insights: The Kernel Boot Process

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Mattias Geniar, February 02, 2015

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You’ve got to love collaboration. Especially on documentation. The github repo 0xAX/linux-insides has a fantastic set of resources that describe the Linux boot process in great detail.

The entire collaborative project is available on Github.

It features:

  1. Step 1: From the bootloader to the kernel
  2. Step 2: First steps in the kernel setup
  3. Step 3: Video mode initialization and transition to protected mode

I suggest you take your time for these, as they’re quite lengthy and go into great detail.

This project reminded me of another successful collaboration: What happens when you type google.com into your browser’s address box and press enter?. That project goes into great depths on all the technical details of web browsing over HTTP/1.1 and the web in general.



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