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The kernel bootup goes through three steps.
 * BootStrapFromPcBios
 * ThirtyTwoBitInitialization
 * InitTask

The boot directory of Linux 0.01 contains head.s and boot.s.  Click the Comments column to read Linus's comments in the source file.

||||File||Descriptions||Comments||
||||boot.s||Bootstrap loader to be executed from BIOS startup||BootComments||
||||head.s||32-bit startup block for linux.  Calls init _main()||HeadComments||