24.1. The FreeBSD Booting Process

Contributed by Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>. v1.1, April 26th.

Booting FreeBSD is essentially a three step process: load the kernel, determine the root filesystem and initialize user-land things. This leads to some interesting possibilities shown below.

24.1.1. Loading a kernel

24.1.2. Determine the root filesystem

24.1.3. Initialize user-land things

24.1.4. Interesting combinations