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Chapter 3. Booting Operating Systems
Chapter 3. Booting Operating Systems Abstract: Chapter 3 provides a complete coverage on operating systems booting. It explains the booting principle and the booting sequence of various kinds of bootable devices. These include booting from floppy disk, hard disk, CDROM and USB drives. Instead of writing a customized booter to boot up only MTX, it shows how to develop booter programs to boot up real operating systems, such as Linux, from a variety of bootable devices. In particular, it shows how to boot up generic Linux bzImage kernels with initial ramdisk support. It is shown that the hard disk and CDROM booters developed in this book are comparable to GRUB and isolinux in performance. In addition, it demonstrates the booter programs by sample systems. 3.1. Booting Booting, which is short for bootstrap, refers to the process of loading an operating system image into computer memory and starting up the operating system. As such, it is the first step to run an operating system. Despite its importance and widespread interests among computer users, the subject of booting is rarely discussed in operating system books. Information on booting are usually scattered and, in most cases, incomplete. A systematic treatment of the booting process has been lacking. The purpose of this chapter is to try to fill this void. In this chapter, we shall discuss the booting principle and show how to write booter programs to boot up real operating systems. As one might expect, the booting process is highly machine dependent. To be more specific, we shall only consider the booting process of Intel x86 based PCs. -
Linux Boot Loaders Compared
Linux Boot Loaders Compared L.C. Benschop May 29, 2003 Copyright c 2002, 2003, L.C. Benschop, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Per- mission is granted to make verbatim copies of this document. This is version 1.1 which has some minor corrections. Contents 1 introduction 2 2 How Boot Loaders Work 3 2.1 What BIOS does for us . 3 2.2 Parts of a boot loader . 6 2.2.1 boot sector program . 6 2.2.2 second stage of boot loader . 7 2.2.3 Boot loader installer . 8 2.3 Loading the operating system . 8 2.3.1 Loading the Linux kernel . 8 2.3.2 Chain loading . 10 2.4 Configuring the boot loader . 10 3 Example Installations 11 3.1 Example root file system and kernel . 11 3.2 Linux Boot Sector . 11 3.3 LILO . 14 3.4 GNU GRUB . 15 3.5 SYSLINUX . 18 3.6 LOADLIN . 19 3.7 Where Can Boot Loaders Live . 21 1 4 RAM Disks 22 4.1 Living without a RAM disk . 22 4.2 RAM disk devices . 23 4.3 Loading a RAM disk at boot time . 24 4.4 The initial RAM disk . 24 5 Making Diskette Images without Diskettes 25 6 Hard Disk Installation 26 7 CD-ROM Installation 29 8 Conclusions 31 1 introduction If you use Linux on a production system, you will only see it a few times a year. If you are a hobbyist who compiles many kernels or who uses many operating systems, you may see it several times per day. -
Dell EMC Poweredge Systems Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Notes Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Notes Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2014 - 2019 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners. 2019 - 03 Rev. A15 Contents 1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................6 System configuration requirements................................................................................................................................. 6 Memory......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Installation and upgrade instructions............................................................................................................................... 6 2 Known issues—To be fixed in future releases.................................................................................................7 Unable to create or modify namespace for NVDIMM.................................................................................................. -
The Linux 2.4 Kernel's Startup Procedure
The Linux 2.4 Kernel’s Startup Procedure William Gatliff 1. Overview This paper describes the Linux 2.4 kernel’s startup process, from the moment the kernel gets control of the host hardware until the kernel is ready to run user processes. Along the way, it covers the programming environment Linux expects at boot time, how peripherals are initialized, and how Linux knows what to do next. 2. The Big Picture Figure 1 is a function call diagram that describes the kernel’s startup procedure. As it shows, kernel initialization proceeds through a number of distinct phases, starting with basic hardware initialization and ending with the kernel’s launching of /bin/init and other user programs. The dashed line in the figure shows that init() is invoked as a kernel thread, not as a function call. Figure 1. The kernel’s startup procedure. Figure 2 is a flowchart that provides an even more generalized picture of the boot process, starting with the bootloader extracting and running the kernel image, and ending with running user programs. Figure 2. The kernel’s startup procedure, in less detail. The following sections describe each of these function calls, including examples taken from the Hitachi SH7750/Sega Dreamcast version of the kernel. 3. In The Beginning... The Linux boot process begins with the kernel’s _stext function, located in arch/<host>/kernel/head.S. This function is called _start in some versions. Interrupts are disabled at this point, and only minimal memory accesses may be possible depending on the capabilities of the host hardware. -
Question Bank Mca Semester V Vol. I
QUESTION BANK MCA SEMESTER V VOL. I 1 FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION The Questions contained in this booklet have been prepared by the faculty of the Institute from the sources believed to be reliable. Neither the Institute nor the faculty gives any guarantee with respect to completeness or accuracy of the contents contained in the booklet and shall in no event be liable for any errors, omissions or damages arising out of use of the matter contained in the booklet. The Institute and the faculty specifically disclaim any implied warranty as to merchantability or fitness of the information for any particular purpose. 2 QUESTION BANK LINUX PROGRAMMING MCA 301 3 QUESTION BANK LINUX PROGRAMMING - MCA 301 MCA V UNIT - I I Test Your Skills: (a) State Whether the Following Statements are True or False: 1 The “no” option informs the machine that there is no grace period or time to wait for other users to log off. 2 Telnet command is used for changing the run level or state of the computer without rebooting. 3 IP address is a unique identifier for the system. 4 Transmission control protocol (TCP) builds on top of UPS and certifies that each message has been received. 5 Cron is known for arranging the files in the disk in chronological manner. 6 ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) converts IP address to MAC Address. 7 UNIX is a command-based system. 8 A program is synonymous with a process. 9 All UNIX flavors today offer a Command User Interface. 10 The operating system allocates memory for the program and loads the program to the allocated memory. -
Network Boot and Exotic Root HOWTO
Network Boot and Exotic Root HOWTO Brieuc Jeunhomme frtest [email protected] Logilab S.A. Revision History Revision 0.3 2002−04−28 Revised by: bej Many feedback inclusions, added links to several projects Revision 0.2.2 2001−12−08 Revised by: dcm Licensed GFDL Revision 0.2.1 2001−05−21 Revised by: logilab Fixed bibliography and artheader Revision 0.2 2001−05−19 Revised by: bej Many improvements and included Ken Yap's feedback. Revision 0.1.1 2001−04−09 Revised by: logilab First public draft. Revision 0.1 2000−12−09 Revised by: bej Initial draft. This document explains how to quickly setup a linux server to provide what diskless linux clients require to get up and running, using an IP network. It includes data and partly rewritten text from the Diskless−HOWTO, the Diskless−root−NFS−HOWTO, the linux kernel documentation, the etherboot project's documentation, the linux terminal server project's homepage, and the author's personal experience, acquired when working for Logilab. Eventually this document may end up deprecating the Diskless−HOWTO and Diskless−root−NFS−HOWTO. Please note that you'll also find useful information in the From−PowerUp−to−bash−prompt−HOWTO and the Thin−Client−HOWTO, and the Claus−Justus Heine's page about NFS swapping. Network Boot and Exotic Root HOWTO Table of Contents 1. Introduction.....................................................................................................................................................1 1.1. What is this all about?.......................................................................................................................1 1.2. Thanks...............................................................................................................................................1 1.3. Diskless booting advocacy................................................................................................................1 1.3.1. Buying is cheaper than building.......................................................................................1 1.3.2. -
Creating Custom Debian Live for USB FD with Encrypted Persistence
Creating Custom Debian Live for USB FD with Encrypted Persistence INTRO Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 43000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine. PRE-REQ * Debian distro installed * Free Disk Space (Depends on you) Recommended Free Space >20GB * Internet Connection Fast * USB Flash Drive atleast 4GB Installing Required Softwares on your distro: Open Root Terminal or use sudo: $ sudo apt-get install debootstrap syslinux squashfs-tools genisoimage memtest86+ rsync apt-cacher-ng live-build live-config live-boot live-boot-doc live-config-doc live-manual live-tools live-manual-pdf qemu-kvm qemu-utils virtualbox virtualbox-qt virtualbox-dkms p7zip-full gparted mbr dosfstools parted Configuring APT Proxy Server (to save bandwidth) Start apt-cacher-ng service if not running # service apt-cacher-ng start Edit /etc/apt/sources.list with your favorite text editor. Terminal # nano /etc/apt/sources.list Output: (depends on your APT Mirror configuration) deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free Add “localhost:3142” : deb http://localhost:3142/security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb http://localhost:3142/http.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free deb http://localhost:3142/ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free Press Ctrl + X and Y to save changes Terminal # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade NOTE: BUG in Debian Live. -
The Linux Startup Process
The Linux startup process Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> The Linux Expertise Center Hewlett-Packard Company Document produced via OpenOffice.org Overview ● The Linux boot process – GRUB. This is the default for X86/Linux – LILO – Other boot loaders ● The Linux Operating modes – Single-user mode – Multi-user mode. ● Run Levels – What are run levels – What are the Linux standard run levels – How Linux manages run levels 2 The Linux Boot process ● The PC boot process is a 3-stage boot process that begins with the BIOS executing a short program that is stored in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the first physical drive. Since this stage 1 boot loader needs to fit in the MBR, it is limited to 512 bytes and is normally written in assembly language. There are a number of boot loaders that can load Linux. ● GRUB and LILO are the most commonly used ones on X86 hardware. ® ® ● EFI is used on the Intel Itanium family. 3 The GRand Unified Bootloader The GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is default boot loader on most distributions today. It has the capability to load a number of different operating systems. 1.The stage 1 boot resides in the MBR and contains the sector number of the stage 2 boot that is usually located in the /boot/grub directory on Linux. 2.The stage 2 boot loader presents a boot menu to the user based on /boot/grub/grub.conf or menu.lst. This contains a boot script. It is the stage2 loader actually loads the Linux kernel or 4 other OS. -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Autoyast Guide Autoyast Guide SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 AutoYaST Guide AutoYaST Guide SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 AutoYaST is a system for unattended mass deployment of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server systems. AutoYaST installations are performed using an AutoYaST control le (also called a “prole”) with your customized installation and conguration data. Publication Date: September 24, 2021 SUSE LLC 1800 South Novell Place Provo, UT 84606 USA https://documentation.suse.com Copyright © 2006– 2021 SUSE LLC and contributors. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or (at your option) version 1.3; with the Invariant Section being this copyright notice and license. A copy of the license version 1.2 is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”. For SUSE trademarks, see https://www.suse.com/company/legal/ . All other third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Trademark symbols (®, ™ etc.) denote trademarks of SUSE and its aliates. Asterisks (*) denote third-party trademarks. All information found in this book has been compiled with utmost attention to detail. However, this does not guarantee complete accuracy. Neither SUSE LLC, its aliates, the authors nor the translators shall be held liable for possible errors or the consequences thereof. Contents 1 Introduction to AutoYaST 1 1.1 Motivation 1 1.2 Overview and Concept 1 I UNDERSTANDING AND CREATING THE AUTOYAST CONTROL FILE 4 2 The AutoYaST Control -
Implementing Full Device Cloning on the NVIDIA Jetson Platform
Implementing Full Device Cloning on the NVIDIA Jetson Platform March 2, 2018 Calvin Chen Linh Hoang Connor Smith Advisor: Professor Mark Claypool Sponsor - Mentor : NVIDIA - Jimmy Zhang Abstract NVIDIA’s Linux For Tegra development team provides support for many tools which exist on the Jetson-TX2 embedded AI computing device. While tools to clone the user partitions of the Jetson-TX2 exist, no tool exists to fully backup and restore all of the partitions and configurations of these boards. The goal of this project was to develop a tool that allows a user to create a complete clone of the Jetson-TX2 board’s partitions and their contents. We developed a series of bash scripts that fully backup the partitions and configurations of one Jetson-TX2 board and restore them onto another board of the same type. 1 Table of Contents Abstract 1 Table of Contents 2 1 Introduction 3 2 Background 5 2.1 Preliminary Research 5 2.1.1 UEFI Booting and Flashing 5 2.1.2 Tegra Linux Driver Package 8 2.1.3 Network File System 8 2.1.4 Jetson TX2 Bootloader 10 2.2 Linux Terminology, RCM boot and Initial ramdisk 12 2.2.1 Linux Terminology 12 2.2.2 USB Recovery Mode (RCM) Boot 13 2.2.3 Initial Ramdisk 14 2.3 Associated Technologies 15 2.3.1 Linux tools 15 2.3.2 Serial Console 16 3 Methodology 17 4 Product 20 4.1 Backup Script 20 4.2 Restore Script 22 4.3 Initial ramdisk (initrd) 24 4.4 Script Development Guidelines 26 4.4.1 Use Case 26 4.4.2 Integrity 26 4.4.3 Performance 27 5 Future Work 29 6 Conclusions 30 7 Bibliography 31 2 1 Introduction The Jetson-TX2 is a low power, high performance embedded artificial intelligence supercomputer utilized in many modern technologies. -
Effective Cache Apportioning for Performance Isolation Under
Effective Cache Apportioning for Performance Isolation Under Compiler Guidance Bodhisatwa Chatterjee Sharjeel Khan Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, USA Atlanta, USA [email protected] [email protected] Santosh Pande Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, USA [email protected] Abstract cache partitioning to divide the LLC among the co-executing With a growing number of cores per socket in modern data- applications in the system. Ideally, a cache partitioning centers where multi-tenancy of a diverse set of applications scheme obtains overall gains in system performance by pro- must be efficiently supported, effective sharing of the last viding a dedicated region of cache memory to high-priority level cache is a very important problem. This is challenging cache-intensive applications and ensures security against because modern workloads exhibit dynamic phase behaviour cache-sharing attacks by the notion of isolated execution in - their cache requirements & sensitivity vary across different an otherwise shared LLC. Apart from achieving superior execution points. To tackle this problem, we propose Com- application performance and improving system throughput CAS, a compiler guided cache apportioning system that pro- [7, 20, 31], cache partitioning can also serve a variety of pur- vides smart cache allocation to co-executing applications in a poses - improving system power and energy consumption system. The front-end of Com-CAS is primarily a compiler- [6, 23], ensuring fairness in resource allocation [26, 36] and framework equipped with learning mechanisms to predict even enabling worst case execution-time analysis of real-time cache requirements, while the backend consists of allocation systems [18]. -
Implantación De Linux Sobre Microcontroladores
Embedded Linux system development Embedded Linux system development DSI Embedded Linux Free Electrons Developers © Copyright 2004-2018, Free Electrons. Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Latest update: March 14, 2018. Document updates and sources: http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/embedded-linux Corrections, suggestions, contributions and translations are welcome! DSI - FCEIA http://dsi.fceia.unr.edu.ar 1/263 Derechos de copia © Copyright 2018, Luciano Diamand Licencia: Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode Ud es libre de: I copiar, distribuir, mostrar y realizar el trabajo I hacer trabajos derivados I hacer uso comercial del trabajo Bajo las siguientes condiciones: I Atribuci´on. Debes darle el cr´editoal autor original. I Compartir por igual. Si altera, transforma o construye sobre este trabajo, usted puede distribuir el trabajo resultante solamente bajo una licencia id´enticaa ´esta. I Para cualquier reutilizaci´ono distribuci´on,debe dejar claro a otros los t´erminos de la licencia de este trabajo. I Se puede renunciar a cualquiera de estas condiciones si usted consigue el permiso del titular de los derechos de autor. El uso justo y otros derechos no se ven afectados por lo anterior. DSI - FCEIA http://dsi.fceia.unr.edu.ar 2/263 Hiperv´ınculosen el documento Hay muchos hiperv´ınculosen el documento I Hiperv´ıncluosregulares: http://kernel.org/ I Enlaces a la documentaci´ondel Kernel: Documentation/kmemcheck.txt I Enlaces a los archivos fuente y directorios del kernel: drivers/input include/linux/fb.h I Enlaces a declaraciones, definiciones e instancias de los simbolos del kernel (funciones, tipos, datos, estructuras): platform_get_irq() GFP_KERNEL struct file_operations DSI - FCEIA http://dsi.fceia.unr.edu.ar 3/263 Introducci´ona Linux Embebido Introducci´ona DSI Linux Embebido Embedded Linux Developers Free Electrons © Copyright 2004-2018, Free Electrons.