Chapter 4. Booting Your Embedded Linux Device

CONCEPTUALLY, BOOTING AN EMBEDDED DEVICE IS VERY SIMPLE:

The kernel takes it from here; it configures memory, its drivers take possession of the hardware they’re interested in, and so on. Once the kernel is satisfied that it has taken care of everything, it starts up the userspace init process, which runs any other processes that are needed.

Like many things in life, however, even though booting the device is conceptually quite simple, the devil is in the details.This chapter looks at those details—answering the question,“How does the Linux kernel move from the boot media to running in RAM?”