Tuesday, July 7, 2009
at
3:47 AM
|
- Operating system must be made available to hardware so hardware can start it
* Small piece of code – bootstrap loader, locates the kernel, loads it into memory, and starts it
* Sometimes two-step process where boot block at fixed location loads bootstrap loader
* When power initialized on system, execution starts at a fixed memory location
Posted by
Roger
Labels:
os 3
0 comments:
Post a Comment