Linux Startup

Question 1

What is firmware stored in chip on hardware?

Answer 1

BIOS

Question 2

What is another name for the unified extensible firmware interface? (UEFI)

Answer 2

BIOS

Question 3

What detects and maps connected devices?

Answer 3

BIOS

Question 4

What performs a POST power on self test on the system hardware

Answer 4

BIOS

Question 5

What initiates the boot sequence from a connected device?

Answer 5

BIOS

Question 6

Do modern systems use BIOS or UEFI

Answer 6

UEFI

Question 7

What is generally stored in the first block or a specific partition of the bootable device?

Answer 7

bootloader

Question 8

What loads the kernel image?

Answer 8

bootloader

Question 9

what loads the intrd image?

Answer 9

bootloader

Question 10

What is the primary bootloader for most Linux distros?

Answer 10

GRUB

Question 11

What is the central component of linux os?

Answer 11

Kernel

Question 12

What is a compressed image located in the boot directory of the fiesystem?

Answer 12

Kernel

Question 13

What mounts the root filesystem?

Answer 13

Kernel

Question 14

What runs the main initialization process Systemd?

Answer 14

Kernel

Question 15

What is the primary initialization process for most distros?

Answer 15

systemd

Question 16

What spawns all other processes

Answer 16

systemd

Question 17

What spawns processes parallelly?

Answer 17

systemd

Question 18

What brings system to a predefined state known as a target?

Answer 18

systemd

Question 19

What are the steps of the linux startup?

Answer 19

BIOS/UEFI > Bootloader > Kernel > Systemd