rana@cs.uwa.oz.au (Ranadeva Peries) (05/07/91)
Hi Netters, I am working on a research project which involves writing a small operating system (unix like) but with light weight processes. I am working with a MicroVax II which is currently running 4.3bsd. Could somebody point me in the right direction with writing the first few (hopefully) lines of bootable code. It might be even better if I get some sources some of you have already written. Are there any other things that I should watch out for ? What exactly is involved in getting the machine to run this standalone (initially) bootable program. Thank you all in advance for any suggestions, comments references, sources or whatever. Please mail your replies directly to me. Rana Peries ( rana@cs.uwa.oz.au) Department of Computer Science University of Western Australia Nedlands 6009. W Australia. Tel (09) 380 2878
vladimir@Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir G. Ivanovic) (05/11/91)
Chapter 13 of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating
System" discusses system startup.
Section 2.6.4 of Operating Systems by A. Tannenbaum talks briefly about system
intialization.
Chapter 2 of the "UNIX System Administration Handbook" is devoted to startup
and shutdown from an administrators point of view.
Section 7.9 of "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" presents the SysV
view of system boot and the init process.
Good luck.
-- Vladimir
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