The following steps will describe the boot sequence of a cisco router:
- POST – Power On Self Test – This checks the hardware of the router
- Bootstrap – Locates the Cisco IOS Software
- Determine which IOS file to use
- Loads IOS into RAM
- Look in NVRAM for Startup-Config
- Load Config
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