See AboutThesePages.

Some links:

• The System Startup Daemon: init, by Dru Lavigne, 11/29/2000 -- for BSD, but useful just the same
• Red Hat Boot Process Tips, Donnie Barnes, V2.0, December 10, 1999
• 20030919: Boot Linux faster: Parallelize Linux system services to improve boot speed; Level: Intermediate; James Hunt; September 17, 2003 — good article, not necessarily for the subject stated but (for the first time, either because I know more now or this is a better article), more of the startup scheme (directories like cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d

containing files (symlinks) like K24irda -> ../init.d/irda. Covers chkconfig as well.

There are probably a lot of reasons init fails or can't be found:

• In current Linux kernels, init must be on an ext2 partition. This is one reason some people maintain a small /boot partition, with an ext2 filesystem.

Contributors

• RandyKramer - 21 Feb 2002
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