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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.7 2001/09/08 01:34:42 wiz Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.8 2001/12/26 02:11:22 wiz Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" .Ar -- <boot string>
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.\" .Oc
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Sy Power fail and crash recovery
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.Ss Power fail and crash recovery
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Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes.
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An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed
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as described in
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.Xr fsck 8 .
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and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
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.Pp
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.Sy Cold starts
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A disk-boot program (/usr/mdec/ufsboot) will attempt to load
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.Ss Cold starts
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A disk-boot program
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.Pa ( /usr/mdec/ufsboot )
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will attempt to load
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.Pa netbsd
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from partition A of the boot device,
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which must currently be an ``sd'' disk.
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Alternatively, network boot program (/usr/mdec/netboot) will load
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which must currently be an
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.Dq sd
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disk.
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Alternatively, network boot program
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.Pa ( /usr/mdec/netboot )
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will load
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.Pa netbsd
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from the NFS root as determined by the procedure described in
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.Xr diskless 8 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Op Fl s
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.Fl s
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flag to the boot loader will bring the system up in single-user mode.
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The
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.Op Fl a
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.Fl a
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flag instructs the system to prompt for the location of the root filesystem
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and the primary swap partition.
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The
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.Op Fl d
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.Fl d
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flag to the boot loader will bring the system up in debug mode.
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Here it waits for a kernel debugger connect; see
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.Xr ddb 4 .
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The
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.Op Fl q
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.Fl q
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flag to the boot loader would boot the system in
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quiet mode,
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.Op Fl v
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.Fl v
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in verbose mode.
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Any extra flags or arguments, the after the -- separator,
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.Ar <boot string>
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achieved by sending a `break').
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If you do this accidentally you can continue whatever was in progress
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by typing `c' followed by the return key.
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.Pp
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/installboot -compact
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.It Pa /netbsd
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