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your System When you boot your system, you will notice lots of
text floating by. If you pay close attention, you will notice
this text is the same every time you reboot your system. The
sequence of all these actions is called the boot sequence and is
(more or less) statically defined. First, your boot loader will
load the kernel image you have defined in the boot loader
configuration into memory after which it tells the CPU to run
the kernel. When the kernel is loaded and run, it initializes
all kernel-specific structures and tasks and starts the init
process. This process then makes sure that all filesystems
(defined in /etc/fstab) are mounted and ready to be used. Then
it executes several scripts located in /etc/init.d, which will
start the services you need in order to have a successfully
booted system. Finally, when all scripts are executed, init
activates the terminals (in most cas