Other Types of Systems

Summary

In general a system or device goes through these states to boot:
  1. ROM Monitor: The first component to run on power on or CPU reset. Runs from ROM or flash.
  2. Boot Loader: Boots the kernel.
  3. Kernel: Has basic control of the hardware in the running system.
  4. User-space Initialization: First user process to run; initializes remaining processes.
  5. First User Process: First process to give control to user.

Here is a table of these components for common systems.

Details

Here is a list of web pages about booting other types of systems:
  • Older systems

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