Booting


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En español botaje.


In computing, booting is a process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. The origin of the word may be from the wild west in America. The image of a cowboy pulling himself up by his bootstraps after a long night drinking is the usual idea. You may also hear booting refered to as bootstraping for this very reason. The computer is trying to pull itself up by its bootstartaps.

Gnoppix during the booting show the syslinux bootprompt:

boot>

At the syslinux bootprompt, a user can type one or more Cheat Codes. The additional codes alter the default boot sequence. After the Cheat Codes are entered the Enter key is used to start the bootstraping process. If the default options are OK, then the user can press Enter without typing Cheat Codes. For example, the default keyboard in the German version of knoppix is great for German speaking individuals. This person would hit the Enter key to take the defaults and starte knoppix. Howwever, an English speaking person would type

linux lang=en

at the boot prompt.

See : booting on Wikipedia