202 System Startup

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202.1 Customising system startup and boot processes

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Candidates should be able to query and modify the behaviour of system services at various run levels. A thorough understanding of the init structure and boot process is required. This objective includes interacting with runlevels.

Key Knowledge Areas

   * Linux Standard Base Specification (LSB) 

/etc/inittab

/etc/init.d/

/etc/rc.d/

chkconfig

update-rc.d

202.2 System recovery

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Candidates should be able to properly manipulate a Linux system during both the boot process and during recovery mode. This objective includes using both the init utility and init-related kernel options.

Key Knowledge Areas

   * inittab
   * GRUB
   * grub shell 

init

mount

fsck

telinit