On Thursday 03 July 2003 13:34, Juraj Wagner wrote: > You may try "http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lki/index.html"; > > > I'm trying to understand how a kernel boots on a x86 system, not > > regarding any loaders that have done their job before. > > Till now, I've checked initrd.txt, linuxboot-current.ps, tlki, lxr sites, > > init/*.c and groups.google.com - there are still some questions: Thanks, Juraj, as you can see from the snippet above, I _HAVE_ checked tlki, but the description there ends with the call of rest_init(). Seems, I chose the wrong description - with 'boot procedure' - I actually meant the mount operations within that procedure. Sorry, I'm a newbie ;-) So, what I am interested in, is the code in that do_mounts.c (in 2.4.19, in older kernels like 2.4.4 that file doesn't exist), especially the routine prepare_namespace(), which is called from the init() thread before exec'uting /sbin/init or similar. MS -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
