FreeBSD Startup Process

When you first start FreeBSD, it prints a flurry of messages on your screen from the kernel and also from the various processes that are starting up. We won't go into detail about what all of these messages mean right now, but the following sections give a quick rundown of the FreeBSD startup procedure.

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