Unix IPC Question:
Please Describe the initial process sequence while the system boots up?
Answer:
–Hardware Boot
–Read boot block (block 0) and load to memory
–Transfer control to kernel
–Kernel initialization
–Mount the root file system on / and create
environment for process 0
–Process 0 invokes process 1(init process)
–init process invokes process getty
–gettyinvokes login
–Read boot block (block 0) and load to memory
–Transfer control to kernel
–Kernel initialization
–Mount the root file system on / and create
environment for process 0
–Process 0 invokes process 1(init process)
–init process invokes process getty
–gettyinvokes login
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