6.4. Implementation

6.4.1. System Startup

Boot the PC using the floppy labled "boot disk" and press Enter at the LILO prompt. Place the recently created root disk in fd0 when prompted. The output should resemble the example below:

boot: bootdisk Loading bootdisk Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting kernel. .. .. [various kernel messages] .. VFS: Insert root floppy to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 178k freed Checking local filesystem integrity. /dev/ram0: clean 105/1024 files 2842/4096 blocks Remounting / as read-write. Mounting local filesystems. Setting the hostname. INIT: Entering runlevel: 1 # _

6.4.2. Verify success of startup scripts

Use the mount command to check that local filesystems are mounted as read-write. The output should look like the example below.

bash# mount /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw)

Check the hostname.

bash# uname -n gnu-linux

6.4.3. System shutdown

Bring the system down gracefully with the shutdown command.

bash# shutdown -h now

We should see the following output from init and the shutdown scripts:

INIT: Switching to runlevel: 0 INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal Terminated INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal Unmounting local filesystems. Remounting / as read-only. Initiating system halt. System halted.