<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi Folks,</div><div><br></div><div>Which bootstrap phase has enough environment established that Drupal can now start going through the filesystem looking for *.info files and loading modules? Does this happen in two steps -- core and contrib? Or does this happen much later after the bootstrap phases?</div><div><br></div><div>I spent some time stepping through bootstrap code yesterday and I was unable to find the meat of the procedure. Lots of calls to drupal_static which is part of loading the internal, in-memory configuration structures, and even a call to read the database "select * from cache_bootstrap where cid = 'system_list';" (Where is this row constructed and written to the database so bootstrapping can read it?) which has the effect of loading much of $data.</div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thanks for the help,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span name="x"></span>Chris.</div></div></body></html>