FreeBSD Internals

[Ken Smith]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:32:26PM +0100, Rouan van Dalen wrote:

> What I need now is the most detailed & in-depth information on 
> FreeBSD's boot sequence.  more specifically : 
>  
> 1) What files are related to the FreeBSD boot process.
> 2) What is each files purpose
> 3) What order are the files loaded & executed
> 4) What exactly does the boot manager look for.
> 5) The structure of the FreeBSD boot record.
> 6) Source code of the boot record & boot manager, etc.

A lot of the information you are looking for is in:

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/

See the chapter on "Bootstrapping and kernel initialization".
Have you looked that over yet?

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