The Booting Process

This section is going to discuss details on the IDE devices, the booting process in general, and the sequence of actions that take place while booting a Linux-based system, whether it is standalone or is sharing a partition with Microsoft Windows operating system. Having several combinations of hardware possible in the market, the discussion in this section is going to look at a very typical scenario that is applicable in most circumstances; however, there may be deviations in a particular system based on the combination and configuration of the individual hardware devices.