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Reworking and nitpicking of the boot description.

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The FreeBSD Documentation Project
$FreeBSD$
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml,v 1.1 2000/03/17 10:25:10 nbm Exp $
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<chapter id="boot">
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<title>Overview of the boot process</title>
<para>FreeBSD uses a three-stage bootstrap by default, which
basically entails three programs which basically call each
basically entails three programs which call each
other in order (the two <link linkend="boot-blocks">boot
blocks</link>, and the <link
linkend="boot-loader">loader</link>), and which build on the
previous programs understanding and provide increasing amounts
linkend="boot-loader">loader</link>). Each of these three build on the
previous program's understanding and provide increasing amounts
of sophistication.</para>
<para>The kernel is then started, during which devices are
<para>The kernel is then started, at which time devices are
probed for and initialized for use. Once the kernel boot
process is finished, it passes control to the user process
init, which then makes sure the disks are in a usable state,
and then starts the user-level resource configuration which
process is finished, the kernel passes control to the user process
&man.init.8;, which then makes sure the disks are in a usable state.
&man.init.8; then starts the user-level resource configuration which
then mounts filesystems, sets up network cards to act on the
network, and generally starts all the processes that usually
are run on a FreeBSD system at startup.</para>

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The FreeBSD Documentation Project
$FreeBSD$
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml,v 1.1 2000/03/17 10:25:10 nbm Exp $
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<chapter id="boot">
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<title>Overview of the boot process</title>
<para>FreeBSD uses a three-stage bootstrap by default, which
basically entails three programs which basically call each
basically entails three programs which call each
other in order (the two <link linkend="boot-blocks">boot
blocks</link>, and the <link
linkend="boot-loader">loader</link>), and which build on the
previous programs understanding and provide increasing amounts
linkend="boot-loader">loader</link>). Each of these three build on the
previous program's understanding and provide increasing amounts
of sophistication.</para>
<para>The kernel is then started, during which devices are
<para>The kernel is then started, at which time devices are
probed for and initialized for use. Once the kernel boot
process is finished, it passes control to the user process
init, which then makes sure the disks are in a usable state,
and then starts the user-level resource configuration which
process is finished, the kernel passes control to the user process
&man.init.8;, which then makes sure the disks are in a usable state.
&man.init.8; then starts the user-level resource configuration which
then mounts filesystems, sets up network cards to act on the
network, and generally starts all the processes that usually
are run on a FreeBSD system at startup.</para>