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24.1. The FreeBSD Booting Process
Contributed by Poul-Henning Kamp
<[email protected]>
. v1.1, April 26th.
Booting FreeBSD is essentially a three step process: load the kernel,
determine the root filesystem and initialize user-land things. This
leads to some interesting possibilities shown below.
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