How does the OS boot OS

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Apr 11 09:52:01 CEST 2003


On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Shubhangi Jadhav wrote:

> 	Is it that the kernel image  which you burn along with linuxbios on the
> BIOS Flash ROM is copied to RAM, performs the hardware initialization and
> then it invokes the other OS which in my case would be linux? How is the
> other OS invoked ?

that is pretty much how it works. Here at LANL we use a system call two 
kernel monte; do a google on it.

ron




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