Comments on: A Basic Guide to Linux Boot Process

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 04:34:25 +0000

In reply to Philippe Moisan.

@Philippe,

Thanks for letting me know! I’ve updated the link to ensure it’s current and accessible.

By: Philippe Moisan

Philippe Moisan — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:30:47 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive.

The link is obsolete…

By: Jordi

Jordi — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:57:04 +0000

Initrd is mounted before the “real” root filesystem and init is executed…

By: Harry S. Anchan

Harry S. Anchan — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:54:26 +0000

In reply to dragonmouth.

What am I missing? I did not see any glaring grammatical errors on this page, except the odd punctuation (who cares about that?)!!! Unless, of course, you have already corrected them. Be that as it may, thank you for the great information. It was very helpful and easy to understand.

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:30:41 +0000

Of course Step #4 is valid only for systemd. While the runlevels remain the same across all init programs, each init (S6, runit, sysVinit, etc) has its own steps in starting a system.

BTW – systemd is no longer just an init program. It is slowly becoming the control program for the distros that use it as more and more functionality is grafted unto it. systemd violates the basic Unix/Linux/BSD principle of doing one thing and doing it well. It is an octopus that does many jobs barely adequately.