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Detecting Hardware
In the vast majority of cases, the hardware detection step is completely automatic. The installer detects your hardware and tries to identify the boot device used in order to access its content. It loads the modules corresponding to the various hardware components detected and then mounts the boot device in order to read it. The previous steps were completely contained in the boot image included on the boot device, a file of limited size and loaded into memory by the bootloader when booting from the boot device.