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This portal talks about the system boot process. Technical words can be used but are explained.

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• Contents

  1. Boot process in general
  2. Bootloaders
     1. GRUB
     2. LILO
     3. Syslinux
     4. YaBoot
     5. Dual boot
  3. Init script
  4. systemd

Boot process in general

• BootLoader

• BootProcess, BootProcessSpeedup

• ?BootFloppy, BootUsb, ?BootUsb2, ?BootingFromFloppyToUsb, BootUsbWithGrubRescue

• Boot-Repair

• ?DebianLive/Bootloader

• MasterBootRecord

• NetworkBooting

• NetworkBootingIndy

• ?OpenBoot

• Passing_boot_options_to_modules

• FromLiloToGrub

• Debian Reference's ''The system initialization''

Bootloaders

Debian bootloaders :

GRUB

• Grub

• GrubConfiguration

• GrubRecover

• Grub/SplashImage

• GrubTransition - Grub v1 to Grub v2 Transistion.

LILO

• LILO

• ConfiguringLilo

• FromLiloToGrub

Syslinux

• Syslinux

YaBoot

• YaBoot

Dual boot

• DualBoot/FreeDOS

• DualBoot

• DualBoot/Windows10

Init script

• fr/SysVInit (in french)

• LSBInitScripts

• LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot

• ?MetaInit, ?MetaInit/InitSurvey

• Init

• RunLevel

• Daemons

• RcFile

systemd

• systemd - system and service manager

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• CategoryPortal | CategorySystemAdministration | CategoryRedundant: this is just a bunch of links; BootProcess is more useful | CategoryProposedDeletion: see Bootprocess