On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:22:50 -0800, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
On Windows, it reads their boot managager, which then loads 'winload' which *demand*-loads drivers and services from disk
But in order for that it needs to be able to access the disk and read the file system, so drivers for both need to be loaded from somewhere or built into the kernel. Filesystem is rather easy as Windows only supports FAT and NTFS for boot fs, what it does with storage drivers like hardwarfe RAID I have no idea.
Please read Chapter 13 on Startup and Shutdown of the 5th edition of the Windows Internals book to get straightened out.
I at least (and I guess a few others) won't buy a book I/they don't need otherwise. So posting links to e.g. wikipedia is much better for such a discussion. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org