To load a program into memory, you mustfirst load a program into memory. The bootupprocess, often a complex multistep sequenceinvolving numerous substeps, solvesthis problem. Any boot-up process, ...

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded. In the first part of this article, I ...

Linux, the powerhouse behind countless servers and desktops worldwide, relies heavily on an initialization (init) system to bootstrap user space and manage system processes after booting.

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

If your PC runs into HAL INITIALIZATION FAILED error with STOP CODE 0x0000005C when your system either wakes up from sleep or when you boot your Windows, it’s ...

I'm running RH73 here, and I have a minor annoyance that's driving me a bit crazy. On boot, RH tries to initialize my Ethernet card and then the PPP connection that gets my DSL on line. This is ...

Windows Server 2019 VM running on VSphere 6.7. Admin rebooted it after installing October updates and it failed to come up with PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED BSOD. Same goes for safe mode. Attempted ...