| 1. | What is the purpose of the kernel? |
| 2. | How would you display a list of all loaded modules in the current kernel? |
| 3. | Which command would you give to upgrade the kernel from an rpm file, and how is this different from upgrading other packages? |
| 4. | How would you display information from the kernel about the hard disk on the first IDE channel? |
| 5. | The noreplacement kernel argument tells the kernel not to use CPU-specific sections of code. How would you use this argument? |
| 6. | What is a boot loader? |