... Art of Linux KerneL Design The Illustrating the Operating System Design Principle and Implementation This page intentionally left blank Art of Linux KerneL Design The Illustrating the Operating ... (BOOTSEG), the new address of Bootsect (INITSEG), the address of the kernel (SYSSEG), the end address of the kernel (SYSEND), and the number of the root file system device (ROOT_DEV) These are ... program is designed to load the first sector (512 B) into the memory, regardless of the version of Linux No matter what the Linux kernel is, the BIOS program just loads the first sector into the memory,...