The following stages of the boot process are important from a configuration perspective:
Second stage loader, the loading of the kernel
You can access the Boot Menu in this stage. For details, see Boot Menu.
You can set up Base Custom Commands with specific execution times. For details, see Base.
Network Integration
After the kernel has loaded, network configurations are applied. Depending on the settings of the endpoint device, there are three possible ways of integrating the endpoint device into the network environment:
DHCP
BOOTP
Manually configured IP address
The network interface can be stopped and restarted on the Linux Console (accessible via [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F11]) with this command: /etc/init.d/network stop/etc/init.d/network start
Starting theX serverand the localwindowmanager
You can set up Desktop Custom Commands for the stages of the X server launch. For details, see Desktop.