Booting Sequence

[blenda]

What is the difference of the booting sequence of Windows and Linux? And also in other operating systems, how is there booting sequence?

[joel]

Windows booting sequence is by addressing modes. While Linux booting sequence on the other hand is by memory locations.

[blenda]

Thanks for the reply. But could you please explain it a little more on what those terms mean?

[mastindersingh]

in linux init process start then inittab then exec to give rise to geety and so on

[janelyn]

A boot sequence is the set of operations the computer performs when it is switched on and when the operating system is loaded. One interesting fact outwardly Windows 95 may initially appear to boot in the same way as DOS but the two boot sequences are actually quite different. Windows 95 places a large number of files in the root directory
Windows 95 can run without a CONFIG.SYS or an AUTOEXEC.BAT file. That's because these files are built into IO.SYS, which automatically executes a set batch of commands. But Linux needs almost nothing. Basically Linux just needs a boot loader to get the kernel from some storage medium into RAM by some method, set up a couple of registers and call it at its entry point. After the boot loader finishes, it calls bootLinux(), which jumps to the kernel.

Regards,
Janelyn

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