Linux Application Development For The Enterprise (Charles River Media Programming)

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.