When the kernel is loaded, it initializes the devices (via
their drivers), starts the swapper (it is a "kernel process",
called kswapd in modern Linux kernels), and mounts the root
-file system (/).
+filesystem (/).
Some of the parameters that may be passed to the kernel
relate to these activities (e.g: You can override the
-default root file system).
+default root filesystem).
For further information
on Linux kernel parameters read
.BR bootparam (7).