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A splash, and F8 for boot options — including the resolution the whole machine will come up in. It is a PE/COFF loader built with clang and lld-link; there is no BIOS path, so the firmware has to be in UEFI mode. -
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On screen, from the first line that can draw. Cores, the PCI bus, the network card, the filesystem. If it stops, it stops somewhere you can read. -
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schinit starts one on the console and a
second on tty2.
mksh is /bin/sh,
with zsh beside it and the real toybox
userland behind both.
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AltGr+F1…F6
switches between them — the one chord a Linux host does not take for
itself — or chvt N from a shell.
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GPL-2.0-or-later · runs from RAM · writes nothing to your disks
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