Contents

• introduction
• How Boot Loaders Work
  • What BIOS does for us
  • Parts of a boot loader
  • Loading the operating system
  • Configuring the boot loader
  
  
• Example Installations
  • Example root file system and kernel
  • Linux Boot Sector
  • LILO
  • GNU GRUB
  • SYSLINUX
  • LOADLIN
  • Where Can Boot Loaders Live
  
  
• RAM Disks
  • Living without a RAM disk
  • RAM disk devices
  • Loading a RAM disk at boot time
  • The initial RAM disk
  
  
• Making Diskette Images without Diskettes
• Hard Disk Installation
• CD-ROM Installation
• Conclusions