Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:17:25 +0100 | From | Ken Moffat <> | Subject | Re: boot loader |
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 08:44:34PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Richard Weinberger > <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does the kernel include a simple boot loader like FreeBSD does? > > > > Why don't you figure yourself? > > > I think it doesn't. I just wanted someone to confirm my thought. > Does the FreeBSD kernel really include a boot loader ? Surely the loader is what reads the kernel into memory and then hands control to it.
If you look at FreeBSD as a whole, it has a boot loader for whichever architecture it was built for. But linux is only the kernel - different distros (in this context, android could be regarded as a distro) and most importantly different architectures or platforms all do different things - in my fairly-limited experience I've used grub, lilo, uboot, yaboot - there are many others.
But please remember that asking general questions not related to kernel development on this list is generally regarded as off-topic.
ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.
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