Chapter 2. Cold Starts
In the Northern Hemisphere, I think we can all relate to the analogy of the cold start; those bleak January mornings where you are frantically trying to start your car. When it does finally splutter into some form of life, we then have to contend with a steering wheel too cold to hold. Thankfully, starting up a Linux system is not so unpleasant; perhaps air-conditioned server rooms have something to do with this, I am not sure…
Working through this chapter, we are going to build upon what you have already mastered—helping you understand your Linux systems. You will learn about the following topics:
- The GRUB and the MBR: In this section, you will learn about the relationship that the GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) enjoys with the Master Boot Record (MBR), being able to slip its slender 466 bytes easily inside the 512-byte limit.
- When is the root filesystem not the root filesystem?: In this section, we will understand the term root when used as...
