linux-insides-zh/Booting/README.md

Kernel booting process

This chapter describes linux kernel booting process. You will see here a couple of posts which describes full cycle of the kernel loading:

• From the bootloader to kernel - describes all stages from turning on the computer before the first instruction of the kernel;
• First steps in the kernel setup code - describes first steps in the kernel setup code. You will see heap initialization, querying of different parameters like EDD, IST and etc...