Reference

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue70/ghosh.html A Linux Gazette article on "Bootstrapping Linux," which includes much detail on the BIOS and MBR aspects of the boot process.

http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/bios2/1.shtml the LostCircuits BIOS guide; much detail on the meaning of all those BIOS settings.

http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=1 The BIOS Optimization Guide; details on tweaking those BIOS settings to your heart's content.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-slack.html A link through IBM's website to an article on booting Slackware Linux, along with a sidebar about the history of System V versus BSD init scripts.

/usr/src/linux/init/main.c The best place to learn about how Linux boots. Fascinating reading, really. Get it from the source!

http://sunsite.dk/linux-newbie/ Home page for the Linux Newbie Administrator GuideA gentle introduction to Linux System Administration.

The GRUB Manual The still yet-to-be-completed manual can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/. On your Fedora system, info grub provides a plethora of information and a sample grub.conf file (/boot/grub/menu.lst is a symbolic link to /boot/grub/grub.conf; use either name) can be found in /usr/doc/grub.

"LILO User's Guide" Werner Almesberger's definitive technical tome on the LInux LOader, or LILO, and how it works on Intel-based PCs. Look under the /usr/share/doc/lilo*/doc directory for the file User_Guide.ps, which can be viewed using the gv client. LILO has been dropped from Fedora; GRUB is now the default boot loader supported in the distribution.

"Managing Initscripts with Red Hat's chkconfig"by Jimmy Ball, Linux Journal, April 2001; pp. 128-132.

"Grub, Glorious Grub" Hoyt Duff, Linux Format, August 2001; pp. 58-61. A tutorial on the GRUB boot loader.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-servicesserviceconf.html Red Hat's guide to use the system-config-service client (then called redhat-config-service).

http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.0.0/gLSB/sysinit.html The Linux Standard Base description of system initialization; this is the standard.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html The bash home page at the GNU Software Project.

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Mendel Cooper's "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide."

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/shells/basic.html Learn basic shell commands at this site.

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/lj/ "The New Korn Shellksh93," an article by David G. Korn, Charles J. Northrup, and Jeffery Korn regarding the korn shell.

http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/ The pdksh home page.

http://lug.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/bash-httpd.html The Bash-httpd FAQ, with links to the latest version of the bash web server, bash-httpd-0.02.

http://www.tcsh.org/ Find out more about tcsh here.

http://www.zsh.org/ Examine zsh in more detail here.