All those cryptic messages you see fly by when the Linux kernel first starts up are messages from the initializing and configuring your hardware.

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• The kernel itself is a program that usually lives in the root partition of the UNIX filesystem. Most Linux distributions call it           and it often a symbolic link to the real kernel file which lives in “/boot”.
• The actual program which the Linux kernel executes as the init process can be specified via the command line parameter.
• A popular boot loader used by most Linux distributions to boot Linux is called
• After the kernel is brought in from disk into main memory, it begins execution and one of the first things it does is …………
• The first program the kernel attempts to execute after basic system initialization is complete is called                        
• Program such as Shell and editors interact with kernel by invoking ……….
• …………responsible for exchanging data between kernel and programs
• You want to add files to a previously created tar file. You want to replace existing files with newer files, how can you do this ?
•        interacts with inner part of kernel
• Services provided by kernel are………