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Booting Linux
Several ways of booting Linux on your system
- booting from a hard disk or USB device
- compressed kernel image is on the Linux partition, which can be loaded either directly or through a boot loader, such a GRUB
- kernel loads all required information from hard disk as it loads itself into memory
- booting from the Linux CD-ROM or DVD
- The disc contains a compressed kernel image
- Contains basic configuration files in /boot and /etc directories to allow basic system
- kernel may still point to hard disk (normal boot) or load everything it needs from the CD (Rescue Disk or Live CD/DVD)