diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml index f913be8845..550badbdd2 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @@ -36,18 +36,18 @@ Overview of the boot process 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 boot blocks, and the loader), and which build on the - previous programs understanding and provide increasing amounts + linkend="boot-loader">loader). Each of these three build on the + previous program's understanding and provide increasing amounts of sophistication. - The kernel is then started, during which devices are + 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. diff --git a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml index f913be8845..550badbdd2 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @@ -36,18 +36,18 @@ Overview of the boot process 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 boot blocks, and the loader), and which build on the - previous programs understanding and provide increasing amounts + linkend="boot-loader">loader). Each of these three build on the + previous program's understanding and provide increasing amounts of sophistication. - The kernel is then started, during which devices are + 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.