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Linux Boot Process
init program (continued)
- each process spawned by init seeks any required modules / processes
- based on known module dependency within the process / module
- spawns any required modules in the dependency listing
- if spawned modules have dependencies, each module it is dependent on will be spawned as well
- Determines the starting runlevel to use (usually 5, for GUI) from the file /etc/inittab
- contains basic information about the runlevels for processes
- more on runlevels soon