bsd boot sequence

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Brian Kim wrote:

> To start, I was wondering if someone could briefly explain the operations
> and function calls that occur at boot time. I wish to thoroughly examine
> the freebsd source code but I'm afraid the sheer volume of code that exists
> leaves me with no real starting point for my research.

These should be a start.

man 8 boot
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot.html