Operating System Concepts by Gagne Greg
Author:Gagne, Greg [Gagne, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780470577448
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010-01-26T00:00:00+00:00
The code in the boot ROM instructs the disk controller to read the boot blocks into memory (no device drivers are loaded at this point) and then starts executing that code. The full bootstrap program is more sophisticated than the bootstrap loader in the boot ROM; it is able to load the entire operating system from a non-fixed location on disk and to start the operating system running. Even so, the full bootstrap code may be small.
Let’s consider as an example the boot process in Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 system places its boot code in the first sector on the hard disk (which it terms the master boot record, or MBR). Furthermore, Windows 2000 allows a hard disk to be divided into one or more partitions; one partition, identified as the boot partition, contains the operating system and device drivers. Booting begins in a Windows 2000 system by running code that is resident in the system’s ROM memory. This code directs the system to read the boot code from the MBR. In addition to containing boot code, the MBR contains a table listing the partitions for the hard disk and a flag indicating which partition the system is to be booted from, as illustrated in Figure 12.9. Once the system identifies the boot partition, it reads the first sector from that partition (which is called the boot sector) and continues with the remainder of the boot process, which includes loading the various subsystems and system services.
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