《Boot loader interview questions》.docx

HYPERLINK /2010/06/boot-loader-interview-questions.htmlBoot loader interview questions Here are boot loader related interview questions that can appear in an interview and might be of great interest to you. Check it out ! 1. What are the various boot loaders that you have worked on ? 2. Where is the boot loader present in an embedded system design ? 3. In general, what does the boot loader do ? 4. What is the role of boot loader in embedded systems ? 5. How will you handle a scenario in which the boot software is erased/corrupted ? 6. How will you handle boot software erasure/corruption scenario if Boot ROM is not available ? 7. What do you mean by bootstrap loader and what does it do ? 8. Is booting different from bootstrapping ? 9. When the computer is powered ON, it does not have OS it in neither ROM nor RAM - True/False ? 10. What is a second-stage boot loader ? 11. Do LILO/GRUB/Syslinux belong to either first stage boot loader(small program) or second-stage boot loaders ? 12. What is network booting ? 13. What is Chain loading or Multi-stage boot loader ? 14. Can you brief up the boot sequence of a normal desktop computer ? 15. Tell about OMAP CPU booting ? 16. What are the most common boot modes of DSP processor ? 17. Give few examples for systems that use Host Port(HPI Boot) for DSP booting ? 18. How will you put U-Boot into the target board ? 19. TFTP is a stripped down version of FTP that does not require authentication - True/False ? 20. Why do you need 2 stage boot process in OMAP processor ? 21. Can you give a highlevel view of Linux Boot process ? 22. What is the role of MBR and its relation with BIOS ? 23. Where is the MBR located ? 24. What is the structure of MBR ? 25. The secondary, or second-stage, boot loader could be more aptly called the kernel loader - True / False 26. What is the relation between GRUB and filesystem while booting ? or Main Difference between LILO and GRUB ? 27. What is the difference between zImage and bzImage ? 28. What