Hello
I want to understand the messages in boot.msg. So I have to do some background reading. Guide me where to start.
Thank you.
Not sure, but your first stop could be /etc/init.d/README. It’ll give you an idea of what happens at boot. Then you’d have to see which programs / services are run and check their man or info pages for more information. Note that what is run varies depending on your hardware, setup, desktop manager, etc.
I find that most boot messages are self-explanatory, although a few can be cryptic. I’d search for those, or ask at the forum about specific messages I don’t understand.
Cross_AM schrieb:
> I want to understand the messages in boot.msg. So I have to do some background reading. Guide me where to start.
The first half of boot.msg are startup messages from the kernel,
so you are actually looking at how the hardware and the kernel
work. Many of the messages are directly referring to details of
your computer’s hardware architecture, and in order to understand
them you need to know the components of your machine and how they
interact. Depending on which part of boot.msg you want to
understand you’ll want to read up on CPU architecture, memory
management, BIOS, chipset functionality, interrupt routing,
system busses, peripheral busses, display adapters, hard disks,
wired/wireless networking, ACPI, among others.
Start by looking up the acronyms you never heard of. 
HTH
T.
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Tilman Schmidt
Phoenix Software GmbH
Bonn, Germany