Re: Linux OS boilerplate

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa _at_ zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <3A90E16D.DB868F2 _at_ yahoo.com>
By author:    Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker _at_ yahoo.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> > Does there exist an outline (detailed or not) of the boot process from
> > the point of BIOS bootsector load to when the kernel proper begins
> 
> IIRC, there is some useful info contained within loadlin.  Also, I
> found a doc by hpa called "THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL" in my local
> archive of cruft -  I just assumed it was in Documentation/ but
> apparently it never made it there (yet).
> 

Documentation/i386/boot.txt

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