<refnamediv>
<refname>bootup</refname>
- <refpurpose>The System Bootup Process</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>System bootup process</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<para>A number of different components are involved in the
system boot. Immediately after power-up, the system
BIOS will do minimal hardware initialization, and hand
- control over to a boot loader stored on a persistant
+ control over to a boot loader stored on a persistent
storage device. This boot loader will then invoke an
OS kernel from disk (or the network). In the Linux
case this kernel now (optionally) extracts and