On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: > ... Something that describes the full boot up to the point of > logging in would be quite useful for troubleshooting why it broke. > Something that describes how grub passes the boot off to the kernel, > how (and why) the kernel starts nash, what nash does, how nash does > what it does, and how init gets control and starts running > rc.sysinit, what that does, and how the various /etc/init.d scripts > get called (Ubuntu does it differently; a Fedora-specific doc is > needed). Something that describes the contents of initrd, how to > change those contents (like you need to do when you need to change > the driver for the root filesystem's controller, if the controller's > driver is modular). A 'Fedora-Boot-HOWTO' if you will. if you want the details on nash, then your bet is the Documentation directory in the kernel source tree and reading about "initramfs" and early userspace. i've been down that road -- it's educational but deadly dry. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
