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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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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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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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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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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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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In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button on the computer or by a software command. After...
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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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Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/, LIN-uuks) is a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is a list of Gentoo Linux derivatives. CloverOS GNU/Linux was a Gentoo image (stage4) and binhost optimized for performance that aims to be both...
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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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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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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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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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without dual booting into Microsoft Windows for compatibility with web sites or software unavailable under Linux. CNET called the user experience of Mandrake...
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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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GNU GRUB (redirect from Grand Unified Boot Loader)
Official website GRUB wiki archived in 2010 Boot with GRUB, an April 2001 article in Linux Journal Booting Linux on x86 using Grub2 – in-depth article Unified...
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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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