Workshop

In this interactive section, you will be given a quiz and a few exercises in order to help solidify your understanding of the FreeBSD system startup process.

Quiz

1:What's the job of boot0, the first boot block?

  1. Load the kernel

  2. Run the BIOS self-test

  3. Find the bootable BIOS partitions and give you a list to choose from

  4. Find the BSD partition that has a bootable FreeBSD system and boot it

A1: The correct answer is D.
2:How do you boot into single-user mode?

  1. Hold down the S key during boot

  2. Enter boot -s at the loader prompt

  3. Press the S key at the boot0 menu

  4. Reconfigure the BIOS and boot from the FreeBSD installation CD

A2: The correct answer is B.
3:What's /etc/defaults/rc.conf for?

  1. It's your main configuration file; edit it to make changes to ...

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