Tough interview questions.

Fri Aug 13 21:25:46 PDT 2004

A great set of questions!  I can't resist, however, to say that one is 
potentially a trick question, because there is no boot up process 
starting with power off.

OK, I know, you assuredly meant, 'from powering off at the OK prompt (or 
equivalent), then powering on' but I hardly ever get the chance to be 
cheerfully obnoxious around here.  :-D

A question somewhat the converse to that one might also be quite 
interesting-- "I power off a running system, which has not been prepared 
for power-off in any way; can that damage anything, and if so, what, 
why, and how?"

cheers,
Strata

John Martinez wrote:

> ...
> Explain to me the boot up process of Solaris/Linux/FreeBSD/whatever from 
> power off to the highest run level.

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