NetBSD/share/man/man8/man8.atari/bootpref.8

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.Dd January 11, 1998
.Dt BOOTPREF 8 atari
.Sh NAME
.Nm bootpref
.Nd set NVRAM boot preference
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm bootpref
.Op -v
.Op -o os
.Op -d delay
.Op -k kbd
.Op -l lang
.Op -s id
.Op -f fmt
.Op -1
.Op -2
.Op -e sep
.Op -c colours
.Op -n
.Op -p
.Op -t
.Op -v
.Op -4
.Op -8
.Op -o
.Op -O
.Op -x
.Op -X
.Op -i
.Op -I
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm bootpref
views and sets the NVRAM boot preferences.
.Pp
The program options are:
.Bl -tag -width Ar
.It Fl V
verbose output (when setting preferences)
.sp
.It Fl o Ar netbsd
set the boot os to NetBSD
.It Fl o Ar tos
set the boot os to TOS
.It Fl o Ar linux
set the boot os to Linux
.It Fl o Ar systemv
set the boot os to System V
.It Fl o Ar none
set the boot os to none
.sp
.It Fl d Ar delay
set the boot delay to
.Ar delay
seconds, where
.Ar delay
is a value between 0 and 255
.sp
.It Fl k Ar english
set the language to English
.It Fl k Ar german
set the language to German
.It Fl k Ar french
set the language to French
.It Fl k Ar spanish
set the language to Spanish
.It Fl k Ar italian
set the language to Italian
.sp
.It Fl l Ar american
set the keyboard layout to American
.It Fl l Ar german
set the keyboard layout to German
.It Fl l Ar french
set the keyboard layout to French
.It Fl l Ar british
set the keyboard layout to British
.It Fl l Ar spanish
set the keyboard layout to Spanish
.It Fl l Ar italian
set the keyboard layout to Italian
.It Fl l Ar sw f
.It Fl l Ar swiss french
set the keyboard layout to Swiss (French)
.It Fl l Ar sw g
.It Fl l Ar swiss german
set the keyboard layout to Swiss (German)
.sp
.It Fl s Ar id
set the SCSI id to
.Ar id ,
where
.Ar id
is a value between 0 and 7
.sp
.It Fl f Ar mmddyy
.It Fl f Ar ddmmyy
.It Fl f Ar yymmdd
.It Fl f Ar yyddmm
set the date format
.sp
.It Fl 1
set the date format to 12 hour clock
.It Fl 2
set the date format to 24 hour clock
.sp
.It Fl e Ar sep
set the date format separator to
.Ar sep
.sp
.It Fl c Ar colours
set the number of
.Ar colours
- 2, 4, 16, 256 or 65535
.sp
.It Fl n
set the video mode to
.Ar NTSC
.It Fl p
set the video mode to
.Ar PAL
.It Fl t
set the video mode to
.Ar TV
.It Fl v
set the video mode to
.Ar VGA
.It Fl 4
set the video mode to
.Ar 40 columns
.It Fl 8
set the video mode to
.Ar 80 columns
.It Fl o
set the video mode to
.Ar overscan
.It Fl O
set the video mode to
.Ar no overscan
.It Fl x
set the video mode to
.Ar ST compatibility
.It Fl X
set the video mode to
.Ar no ST compatibility
.It Fl i
set the video mode to
.Ar interlace
(TV),
.Ar double line
(VGA)
.It Fl I
set the video mode to
.Ar no interlace/double line
.El
.Pp
All strings can be specified by their shortest abbreviation
.Pp
If no parameters are specified,
.Nm bootpref
shows the current boot preferences.
.Sh AUTHOR
.An Julian Coleman
.Sh CAVEATS
Setting the boot os to 
.Ar none
will cause the machine not to boot from the hard disk.
.Pp
The majority of the parameters are not used under
.Nx