Hi folks, There's a man page, boot(7), purporting to give a description of the boot process on a Linux system. Though this file is on Ubuntu Hardy, comes fresh from kernel.org and is part of some Linux man pages suite, it's so old it still says most people use LILO and doesn't mention grub at all! It also says init uses inittab to control its processing. That's true of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and it was true of the Fedoras I used (I think the last was Fedora 5), but it isn't true of Ubuntu which doesn't have an inittab, and for what it may or may not be worth it's not true of Solaris 10 (it has one but it's maintained by a special program). Ubuntu's init(?) refers to something called upstart but I haven't found any documentation of upstart.
Does anyone know of a description of a modern boot process on a system like Ubuntu that appears not to have a concept of runlevel? It boots into runlevel 2 and yet has network capability, so although it has a telinit and the rc[0-6S] directories I'm not at all sure what if anything they do. Any ideas would be great Lee appreciated. :-) Thanks much, -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing Center Services Computing and Information Technology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
