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1st stage boot disk (initrd)
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An initrd disk is loaded from whereever (this not important at this point
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since it is done by the boot loader before booting the kernel).
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The linuxrc program is statically linked (with dietlibc?) and does the
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following:
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* Mount /proc and /dev.
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* Allow loading kernel modules which are present on the initrd disk.
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* Configure network interfaces if present.
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* Configure installation source with 2nd stage root filesystem.
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* Load the 2nd stage system to /dev/ram1 (and others?)
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* Write new root filesystem specs to /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev.
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* Umount /proc and /dev.
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* Exit and let the kernel do the rest.
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The user interaction must be done without depending on any terminal
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capabilities.
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For loading kernel modules, the tool 'insmod' is also stored on the initrd
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image (re-implementing insmod in linuxrc would be too complicated).
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2nd stage boot disk (install system)
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FIXME
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