A.7.2 Initialization

On startup, the Mathematica kernel does the following:

Perform license management operations.

Run Mathematica commands specified in any -runfirst options passed to the kernel executable.

Run Mathematica commands specified in any -run options passed to the kernel executable.

Run the Mathematica commands in the user-specific kernel init.m file.

Run the Mathematica commands in the system-wide kernel init.m file.

Load init.m and Kernel/init.m files in Autoload directories.

Begin running the main loop.