2.7. Exercises

E2.1

Why is it important to run lilo -t before installing the LILO boot loader? How do you boot a kernel named something other than vmlinuz?

E2.2

Why shouldn’t a Linux system be turned off with the power button on the computer case? What are some of the alternatives?

E2.3

Use the GRUB command line to boot a kernel that isn’t in grub.conf.

image E2.4

Explain the concept of run levels. List the run levels defined in Linux, and briefly describe each. What is the relationship between run level 1 and run level S?

E2.5

Write a startup script to start the “foo” daemon (/usr/local/sbin/foo), a network service. ...

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