When we install Linux we basically do more number of partitions. When allocating disk space for the partitions, the first sector(One Sector = 512 Bytes), or data unit, for each partition is always reserved for programmable code used in booting. The very first sector of hard disk is reserved for booting purpose and is called Master Boot Record(MBR).
Step:1 POST (Power On Self Test)
Step:2 BIOS (Basic Input Output System)
Step:3 MBR (Master Boot Record), after opening MBR the boot loader code in MBR is executed. Then the MBR needs to know which partitions on the disk have boot loader code specific to their operating systems in their boot sectors and then attempts to boot one of them.
Step:4 Select's the particular boot partition(basically /boot), then it need to select the boot loader. Their are two types of boot loader in linux LILO(LInox LOader, / etc/lilo.conf) and GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader).LILO is not in use now a days.
Step:5 Then the data in /boot/grub/grub.conf is readed, which list all the available operating system and their booting parameters.
Step:6 When Linux begins to boot with its kernel, it first runs the /sbin/init program, which does some system checks.
Step:7 Then the /etc/inittab file is opened this will tell us which runlevel should be used.
Step:8 Based on the Selected runlevel the init process then executes start up scripts located in subdirectory of /etc/rc.d/*. If the runlevel 5 is chosen means then the scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d is executed.
Step:9 cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d . The files inside in the directory are Start up with two things "S" and"K". The scripts starting with "S" are executed when System starts and the Scripts starting with "K" are executed when the system shutdowns. The Number that follows the K and S specifies the position in which the scripts should be run in ascending order.
Step:10 Then the scrips inside the /etc/rc.d/rc.local are executed, if u manually added any.
Step:1 POST (Power On Self Test)
Step:2 BIOS (Basic Input Output System)
Step:3 MBR (Master Boot Record), after opening MBR the boot loader code in MBR is executed. Then the MBR needs to know which partitions on the disk have boot loader code specific to their operating systems in their boot sectors and then attempts to boot one of them.
Step:4 Select's the particular boot partition(basically /boot), then it need to select the boot loader. Their are two types of boot loader in linux LILO(LInox LOader, / etc/lilo.conf) and GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader).LILO is not in use now a days.
Step:5 Then the data in /boot/grub/grub.conf is readed, which list all the available operating system and their booting parameters.
Step:6 When Linux begins to boot with its kernel, it first runs the /sbin/init program, which does some system checks.
Step:7 Then the /etc/inittab file is opened this will tell us which runlevel should be used.
Step:8 Based on the Selected runlevel the init process then executes start up scripts located in subdirectory of /etc/rc.d/*. If the runlevel 5 is chosen means then the scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d is executed.
Step:9 cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d . The files inside in the directory are Start up with two things "S" and"K". The scripts starting with "S" are executed when System starts and the Scripts starting with "K" are executed when the system shutdowns. The Number that follows the K and S specifies the position in which the scripts should be run in ascending order.
Step:10 Then the scrips inside the /etc/rc.d/rc.local are executed, if u manually added any.
