booting

[mss24]

Ok, still very much of a newbie here; trying to understand more about how the OS loads. While booting what files/scripts are called to tell the OS its configuration? Is there any file or collection of files that serve the same purpose that autoexec.bat did for early windows?

[bdg1983]

SysV uses runlevels to set what services to startup on boot. The NHF http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/sysvinit.html will explain it a lot better than I can.

There's also loadable modules, but that I still haven't gotten to fully understand. Different scripts tell what modules to load from /lib/modules/Kernel-Version if you have a modular kernel.

A good book on Linux will certainly explain in far better detail than I possibly could.