[ Thanks to Roberto
Alsina for this link. ]
“In this article we will explore how most Linux distributions
boot, in some detail. I haven’t seem many full explanations of
this, and it’s not terribly complex, although it is somewhat
long.“I will use a Red Hat 9 system to explain it, but most
distributions should be almost the same… except Slackware and its
derivatives.“While almost everyone uses what’s called a SystemV init setup,
Slackware and derivatives use a BSD init (like FreeBSD, OpenBSD and
*BSD, of course :-), which is different…”