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Starting and stopping the system

Boot scenarios

There are several circumstances under which a boot can occur after the system is up and running:

See ``Starting (rebooting) your system'' for more details on rebooting.

Prior to UNIX® System V Release 4, the programs and data files needed during booting resided in the root filesystem, and it was assumed that a System V (s5) filesystem was defined on the root slice.

With UNIX System V Release 4 and later releases, a file-system-independent boot procedure is implemented through the use of the boot filesystem (bfs), and the boot procedure no longer depends on the filesystem type of the root filesystem.


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