Tenacious wrote:
There is no doubt where Knopper got his start. There is a woman's voice, "Initiating startup sequence", as the system loads. She comes on again as the system shuts down. I know very little about Linux as yet, but, I dont think there is a "Startup.Sequence".
The closest thing to a startup-sequence for Linux (or for most Unices, for that matter!) is the /etc/inittab and /etc/rc.d/* files.
The /etc/inittab file tells init, the root process (i.e. process 0) what to run. Depending on your run level (traditionally 0 for halt, 1 for single-user, 3 for multi-user, 4 or 5 for X and 6 for reboot, but there are can be others), it will run the appropriate /etc/rc.d/rc.* file with the runlevel corresponding to the file name.
So, my Slackware box, without X, runs at runlevel 3. When the box starts, it will execute the script file /etc/rc.d/rc.3, which in turn runs the different scripts for the different processes, like starting the network, starting print spoolers, starting the quota monitor, etc.
The best place to start is with the init man page (i.e. 'man init')!
As for Knoppix or any Linux variant getting it's start from Amiga... I think you might have it backwards! While Amiga predates Linux (I remember working on my friends 386 running Linux kernel 0.02 or some such low number in college while hacking on my A2000 with OS 2.04), Unix itself predates Amiga by about 15 or so years. And, Linux is based on the System V variant of Linux, which had its first release in '83.
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Tsargon
