Boot Process

Question 1

The BIOS reads the MBR and then loads the ________

Answer 1

boot loader

Question 2

The boot loader loads the _____ and _____ image into memory

Answer 2

The boot loader loads the Linux Kernel and initrd image into memory

Question 3

the boot loader turns control of the boot process to the _______.

Answer 3

Kernel

Question 4

The kernel is located in the ______ directory.

Answer 4

/boot

Question 5

the kernel is referenced in the _______ file.

Answer 5

/boot/vmlinuzz

Question 6

the drivers are part of the _____.

Answer 6

kernel

Question 7

The ________ is a cpio archive that the kernel can load into a ramdisk.

Answer 7

initramfs (Initial RAM File System)

Question 8

initramfs modules are listed in the _______ variable in ________.

Answer 8

INITRD_MODULES, /etc/sysconfig/kernel

Question 9

to rebuild initramfs, use the command _____.

Answer 9

mkinitrd

Question 10

After checking partitions and mounting the root file system, init starts ______.

Answer 10

/sbin/init

Question 11

_______ boots the system and loads all of the services and programs configured for the system.

Answer 11

/sbin/init

Question 12

_____ always has a process ID number of 1.

Answer 12

/sbin/init

Question 13

the configuration for init is located in _____.

Answer 13

/etc/inittab

Question 14

Once the init process starts, it runs the _____ script, which completes initialization tasks such as setting disk quotas and mounting local file systems.

Answer 14

/etc/init.d/boot

Question 15

After the boot script (/etc/init.d/boot) init starts the ______ script. (uses runlevel configuration to start services and daemons.

Answer 15

/etc/init.d/rc

Question 16

This script uses your runlevel config to start services and daemons.

Answer 16

/etc/init.d/rc

Question 17

Space on the MBR is limited to _____ bytes.

Answer 17

446

Question 18

The two boot loaders included with SUSE are:

Answer 18

GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) and LILO (LInux LOader)

Question 19

Stage 1 of GRUB is located:

Answer 19

in the MBR of the hard disk or the boot sector, or a floppy.

Question 20

Stage 2 of GRUB is located in:

Answer 20

the /boot/grub/ directory.

Question 21

Maps and map files are used for

Answer 21

noting physical block numbers that comprise the logical files.

Question 22

The _____ boot loader relies entirely on maps.

Answer 22

LILO

Question 23

The _____ boot loader has file system support

Answer 23

GRUB

Question 24

to find which partition contains the kernel, use the ___________ command.

Answer 24

find /boot/vmlinuz

Question 25

To access the GRUB shell from the text-based menu:

Answer 25

type the character "c"

Question 26

The GRUB boot manager config file is located in:

Answer 26

/boot/grub/menu.lst

Question 27

to configure GRUB with YaST in the GUI use the command:

Answer 27

yast2 bootloader

Question 28

To access the bootloader in the YaST GUI, navigate to

Answer 28

System > Boot Loader

Question 29

You can change the first program loaded by the kernel by entering:

Answer 29

init=

Question 30

To get bash shell access from the boot loader, enter

Answer 30

init=/bin/bash

Question 31

After booting into the shell from GRUB, the file systems are mounted as read-only. To fix this, remount the file system with ________.

Answer 31

mount -o remount,rw,sync -t filesystem_type device_name mountpoint

Question 32

the ____ parameter can be used in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to force the password query before the GRUB title entries can be selected

Answer 32

lock