WEEK 3&4

Topic: Booting the computer

Subtitle: Meaning of booting the computer

Learning Objectives: At the end of this lesson, pupils should be able to:

1. Define booting the computer

2. State the types of booting

Instructional material: A functional computer system.

CONTENT

TYPES OF BOOTING

Cold Boot: when the user switches on a computer after it has been powered off completely,

Warm Boot: when the user restarts the computer.

When the booting process takes place, it copies the kernel and important instructions of an operating system from the hard disk to the main memory (RAM). The kernel is the most important part of the operating system that manages memory and devices, maintains the computer clock, and starts applications.

It assigns compute resources like devices, programs, data,.... View More