How does the kernel work?
Aug 24, 2021
2 minutes
When you power on your Linux box the BIOS or UEFI jump into life and do all kinds of checks and initialisations to get it into a state capable of running an OS. Once that’s done it hands over to the bootloader (GRUB or systemdboot, say) whose job is to load the kernel into memory, start
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