The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
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#2GRUB is mentioned but not detailed.
Here are some details: https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/
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#3Hard to read on my phone due to faded text.
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#4Video device initialization is intimately intertwined and a dependency for all this early boot stuff. I was hoping to learn more but it's not even mentioned. Still, neat.
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#5Hard to read on my phone due to faded text.
The styling is bad on a desktop browser too. If you use Firefox or Firefox Mobile then reader mode is good for cases like this.
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#6Light gray text on white??
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#7The topic is interesting but it seems to be targeted for my grandmother.
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#8The topic is interesting but it seems to be targeted for my grandmother.
> When power stabilizes, the CPU resets itself to a tiny, old‑fashioned mode called real mode. Real mode dates back to the original 8086 chip. The rules are simple on purpose. Memory addresses are built from two values the CPU keeps in special fast storage called registers. You combine a segment and an offset like this:
physical_address = (segment Re: The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
#9In the page source:
uwu
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#10Hard to read on my phone due to faded text.
The self deprecatingly downvoted look.