1 Jul
2004
1 Jul
'04
3:57 a.m.
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Paul Koning wrote:
Other PDP11 operating systems -- no idea, but changes
are it's a
variation on one of these themes.
All UNIXes have their file system (primary disk)
boot sector loaded
by the hardware bootstrap (always first sector on the disk), which
then has enough brains to go through the file system and load the
/boot program. This then has enough brains to load either a system
kernel image (/unix) or a standalone (diagnostic) program.
--f