Boot loaders MT08 EN

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Memory Title: Boot_Loaders_EN

Student Name: CHARLES

Student Firstname: Christina

Contents 1 Summary 2 Mots clés 3 Technologies concernées 4 Eléments de démonstration 5 Illustration 6 Bibliographie

Summary

Boot loaders are firmaware loaded to start up a computer. Generally, Bootloaders are located on the first partition of the hard drive of a computer. Boot loaders better known are LILO, GRUB for Linux and NTLDR for Windows. Although there are differences between these firmware, they operate exactly the same way.

Mots clés

Boot loaders

GRUB

LILO

EFI

Technologies concernées

x86(PC) architecture, Macintosh, Intel Itanium

Eléments de démonstration

Multiboot Linux/Windows

Illustration

GRUB pour Mandrake(Mandriva), Debian et XP

[code]

timeout 10

color blue/light-gray yellow/red

default 0�

title Linux Mandrake 10.2 (SMP)

kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-smp

root=/dev/hda7 acpi=on vga=788

initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd-smp.img�

title Linux Debian Sarge

kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686-smp root=/dev/hde1

initrd (hd1,6)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686-smp�

title Windows XP

rootnoverify (hd0,0)

chainloader +1

[/code]

Bibliographie

wikipedia.org

laboratoire-microsoft.com

tlpc.com

poloastucien.free.fr

Manuel du grub

lea-linux.org