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This post made me remember the technical interview by phone I had with Facebook circa 2010 for a Production Engineer role (but maybe it wasn't called yet that way back then) where they asked me exactly this. Well, they actually asked "explain me the boot process of a Linux server", with no more hints and "go into the details you feel are important" as the only help.

Anyway I should have moved to Dublin and something something surveillance capitalism so the grape wasn't ripe enough anyway.