Other Non-INIT Extensions
INIT-type extensions were loaded at boot time to update the operating system. Confusingly, various other files were placed into the Extensions folder, many of which were not loaded at boot time. The most notable of these were shared libraries which were commonly put into the Extensions folder for ease of location. Shared libraries are not loaded at boot time.
INIT was not the only type of system extension. Another type is the scri, or WorldScript extension. The BootX Linux bootloader was implemented as a scri simply because they are loaded very early on in the boot process before all other extensions. BootX could then display a dialog offering to let the user finish booting Mac OS or load Linux instead.
Read more about this topic: Extension (Mac OS)
Famous quotes containing the word extensions:
“The psychological umbilical cord is more difficult to cut than the real one. We experience our children as extensions of ourselves, and we feel as though their behavior is an expression of something within us...instead of an expression of something in them. We see in our children our own reflection, and when we don’t like what we see, we feel angry at the reflection.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)