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.
Initiating system halt.
System halted.
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