The Linux booting process involves multiple stages and is in many ways similar to the BSD and other Unix-style boot processes, from which it derives....
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The booting process of Microsoft Windows varies between different releases. In Windows versions 1.01 to Windows 2.11, the system was loaded when WIN.COM...
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The booting process of Android devices starts at the power-on of the SoC (system on a chip) and ends at the visibility of the home screen, or special...
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UEFI (redirect from Windows 8 secure boot)
Arch Linux. Retrieved 25 September 2013. "GRUB and the boot process on UEFI-based x86 systems". redhat.com. Retrieved 14 November 2013. "UEFI Booting 64-bit...
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Kali Linux is a Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. It is maintained and funded by Offensive Security. The software...
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Multi-booting Boot disk Bootkit Comparison of boot loaders Linux startup process Macintosh startup Microreboot Multi boot Network booting RedBoot Self-booting...
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Ubuntu (redirect from History of Ubuntu Linux)
Ubuntu (/ʊˈbʊntuː/ uu-BUUN-too) is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. Ubuntu is officially...
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which allows logins in single user mode. The Linux console provides a way for the kernel and other processes to send text output to the user, and to receive...
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the booting of a Linux loader ("xbeboot") straight from a save game. The Xbox is essentially a PC with a custom 733 MHz Intel Pentium III processor, a...
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alternate Linux distributions with support for Apple silicon via a bootable USB drive. Despite being able to launch a UEFI shell, booting Microsoft Windows...
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into memory. U-Boot itself must be booted by the platform, and that must be done from a device that the platform's ROM is capable of booting from, which...
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device booting is not directly supported in the BIOS, the Puppy floppy boot disk can be used to kick-start it). It is possible to run Puppy Linux with Windows 9x/Me...
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The Linux kernel is a free and open source,: 4 UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...
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There are several ways to install a Linux distribution. The most common method of installing Linux is by booting from a live USB memory stick, which can...
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Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/, LIN-uuks) is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on...
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Gentoo Linux (pronounced /ˈdʒɛntuː/ JEN-too) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Unlike a binary software distribution...
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EFI system partition (category Booting)
the BIOS-based CSM booting upon detecting certain types of partition table on the boot disk, effectively preventing UEFI booting from being performed...
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purple color scheme. The verbose boot looks just like my everyday gentoo system booting – a variation on the regular linux boot you've all probably seen many...
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that contains the boot loader, a piece of software responsible for booting the operating system. For example, in the standard Linux directory layout (Filesystem...
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Nobara Linux is a Linux distribution based on Fedora Linux, it is developed by Thomas Crider, otherwise more colloquially referred to as "Glorious Eggroll"...
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Coreboot (redirect from Linux BIOS)
linuxboot/heads, LinuxBoot, 28 May 2024, retrieved 29 May 2024 Inside the Linux boot process, by M. Jones, IBM Open BIOSes for Linux, by Peter Seebach...
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dual booting into Windows for compatibility with web sites or software unavailable under Linux. CNET called the user experience of Mandrake Linux 8.0 the...
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This is a list of Gentoo Linux derivatives. FireballISO (or "Fireball") is a VMware virtual appliance that builds a security-hardened Live CD containing...
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Init (redirect from Init process)
(short for initialization) is the first process started during booting of the operating system. Init is a daemon process that continues running until the system...
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Initial ramdisk (redirect from /boot/initrd.img)
generator Linux startup process List of Linux distributions that run from RAM EFISTUB booting allows EFI firmware to load a Linux kernel (Arch Linux Wiki)...
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Apple has streamlined the process of dual booting Windows on Macs, but not for Linux. rEFIt made it possible to dual boot Linux. Macs which utilize the...
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support booting from the device in question. One can make one's own boot disk (typically done to prepare for when the system won't start properly). Boot disks...
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Kernel panic (redirect from Linux kernel panic)
diagnosis of the error and, in usual cases, restart. After recompiling a kernel binary image from source code, a kernel panic while booting the resulting...
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first process (called init) is started by the kernel at booting time and never terminates (see Linux startup process); other parentless processes may be...
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Tux (mascot) (redirect from Linux penguin)
In some Linux distributions, for example Gentoo, Tux greets the user during booting with multi-processor systems displaying multiple images of Tux, one...
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