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Hewlett Packard Interview Question for Consultants


Country: India
Interview Type: In-Person
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/boot/vmlinuz

- Anonymous May 13, 2012 | Flag Reply
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The decompressing of kernel may depend on architecture. For example in x86, the bootloader usually does the decompressing of kernel, whereas in arm architecture, there are several assembly scripts (like head.S, start.S etc) causes calling to decompress_kernel() (arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c) function which in turn calls do_decompress(), which is specific to the machine type.

- abhi.jais.86 December 15, 2012 | Flag Reply
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There is no multi processing at boot time, so technically there is only one task running at boot time, it's call the kernel thread; the very first process created comes after the kernel has been decompressed and running, this user space process is called init (PID 1)

- gmoque July 27, 2012 | Flag Reply
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The process is called as BIOS SHADOWING.

- Guddu Sharma May 12, 2012 | Flag Reply


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