9.2. Reading in the Unix Kernel
As we saw in the previous section, the boot sector on the boot media
contains a boot program which loads the kernel into memory
and relinquishes control to the kernel. The location of the kernel
on the root disk is highly vendor dependent:
- AIX:
/unix
- HP-UX 10.x:
/stand/vmunix
- IRIX:
/unix
- Linux:
/boot/vmlinuz
- Solaris:
/kernel/unix
- Tru64Unix (formerly Digital UNIX):
/vmunix