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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

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