[BRLTTY] Anyone know of a description of a modern boot?

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Hi folks,

There's a man page, boot(7), purporting to give a description of the boot 
process on a Linux system. Though this file is on Ubuntu Hardy, comes fresh 
from kernel.org and is part of some Linux man pages suite, it's so old it 
still says most people use LILO and doesn't mention grub at all! It also 
says init uses inittab to control its processing. That's true of Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux and it was true of the Fedoras I used (I think the last was 
Fedora 5), but it isn't true of Ubuntu which doesn't have an inittab, and 
for what it may or may not be worth it's not true of Solaris 10 (it has one 
but it's maintained by a special program). Ubuntu's init(?) refers to 
something called upstart but I haven't found any documentation of upstart.

Does anyone know of a description of a modern boot process on a system like 
Ubuntu that appears not to have a concept of runlevel? It boots into 
runlevel 2 and yet has network capability, so although it has a telinit and 
the rc[0-6S] directories I'm not at all sure what if anything they do.

Any ideas would be great Lee appreciated. :-)

Thanks much,

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Lee Maschmeyer
Computing Center Services
Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA