Map of boot procedure

[Gary Coulbourne]

>rather what it boots and the messages those modules return. I meant a
>description or block diagram of what directories and files are being
>looked at and procedures are run to get the information to boot.
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Most of the boot process goes by the scripts in /etc/init.d based on an 
order determined by the rc scripts.  The latter vary depending on which 
init system your distro uses.  I would be surprised if there weren't a 
FAQ concerning it, actually.  If you are familiar with bash, you could 
read through the scripts.  Ultimately, every process descends from a 
process called init (if you do a pstree, you'll see that every process 
shows that as a parent), and user logins are "child processes" of login 
or sshd or telnetd.

If you have specific questions, I'd be happy to help, although my 
experience is not really with the SUSE init.  Undoubtedly, it is similar 
to Gentoo since if it were too different it wouldn't be compatible with 
much. :)

Peace,
Gary