Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031520AbbD2CZq (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:25:46 -0400 Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-7.server.virginmedia.net ([80.0.253.71]:51831 "EHLO know-smtprelay-omc-7.server.virginmedia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031377AbbD2CZo (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:25:44 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 496 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:25:43 EDT X-Originating-IP: [81.106.150.188] X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=cpwVkjIi c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=DGj713NdaxKrsjjgQne7PA==:117 a=DGj713NdaxKrsjjgQne7PA==:17 a=J0QyKEt1u0cA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=NLZqzBF-AAAA:8 a=e9J7MTPGsLIA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=_9n6uJ4PU3lXjpKteAkA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:17:25 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: Thiago Farina Cc: Richard Weinberger , linux list Subject: Re: boot loader Message-ID: <20150429021725.GB30877@milliways> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1463 Lines: 36 On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 08:44:34PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Richard Weinberger > wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Thiago Farina wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does the kernel include a simple boot loader like FreeBSD does? > > > > Why don't you figure yourself? > > > I think it doesn't. I just wanted someone to confirm my thought. > Does the FreeBSD kernel really include a boot loader ? Surely the loader is what reads the kernel into memory and then hands control to it. If you look at FreeBSD as a whole, it has a boot loader for whichever architecture it was built for. But linux is only the kernel - different distros (in this context, android could be regarded as a distro) and most importantly different architectures or platforms all do different things - in my fairly-limited experience I've used grub, lilo, uboot, yaboot - there are many others. But please remember that asking general questions not related to kernel development on this list is generally regarded as off-topic. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/