Other Types of Systems
Summary
In general a system or device goes through these states to boot:
- ROM Monitor: The first component to run on power on or CPU reset. Runs from ROM
or flash.
- Boot Loader: Boots the kernel.
- Kernel: Has basic control of the hardware in the running system.
- User-space Initialization: First user process to run; initializes remaining processes.
- 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:
- Android
- Chromium OS
- Mac OS X
- Raspberry Pi
Older systems
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