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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.2 2003/04/30 20:40:06 martin Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.3 2003/05/01 02:11:01 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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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm boot
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.Nd
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system bootstrapping procedures
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.Nd system bootstrapping procedures
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm boot
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.Op Fl adqsv
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.Oo
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.Ar -- \*[Lt]boot string\*[Gt]
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.Ar --
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.Aq Ar boot string
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.Oc
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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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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.Xr fsck 8 ,
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and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
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.Ss Cold starts
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The
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boot
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.Pa netbsd
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from the default boot device, configured via OpenFirmware environment
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variables. See below for details.
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variables.
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See below for details.
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.Ss Boot program options
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.Bl -tag -width xxx
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.It Fl a
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.El
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.Pp
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Any extra flags or arguments, or the
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.Ar \*[Lt]boot string\*[Gt]
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.Aq Ar boot string
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after the -- separator are passed to the boot PROM.
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Other flags are currently ignored.
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.Pp
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At any time you can break back to the ROM by pressing the `STOP'
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(labeled `L1' on older keyboard types) and `a'
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At any time you can break back to the ROM by pressing the
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.Sq STOP
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(labeled
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.Sq L1
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on older keyboard types) and
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.Sq a
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keys at the same time (if the console is a serial port the same is
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achieved by sending a `break').
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achieved by sending a
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.Sq break ) .
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If you do this accidentally you can continue whatever was in progress
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by typing `go'.
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by typing
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.Sq go .
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.Sh BOOT DEVICES
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Since machines vary in the way their devices are connected greatly, there
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are aliases defined by the firmware. You can either use the full qualified
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OpenFirmware path of a device node, or the alias.
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are aliases defined by the firmware.
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You can either use the full qualified OpenFirmware path of a device node,
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or the alias.
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.Pp
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A typical list of usable boot devices (extracted from the output of
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the OpenFirmware command
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.Em devalias )
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the OpenFirmware command
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.Ic devalias )
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is:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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net /sbus/SUNW,hme@e,8c00000
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is specified the default device is used (see below).
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.Sh FIRMWARE ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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All OpenFirmware environment variables can be printed with the
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.Em printenv
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.Ic printenv
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command and changed with
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.Em setenv .
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.Ic setenv .
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The boot process relevant variables and their suggested value for
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booting NetBSD are:
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booting
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.Nx
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are:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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boot-command boot
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auto-boot? true
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from the device aliased to
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.Em disk ,
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see the discussion on devices above.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /netbsdxx -compact
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.It Pa /netbsd
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system code
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.It Pa /boot
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system bootstrap
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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boot cdrom
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.Ed
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Boot from CDROM. Note that some multi-arch CDs are not able to use the
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Boot from CDROM.
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Note that some multi-arch CDs are not able to use the
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default sparc64 partition for CDROMs (f), so they may require an explicit
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partition letter, for example
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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.Ed
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to boot single user from network and break into the kernel debugger as
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soon as possible.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /netbsdxx -compact
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.It Pa /netbsd
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system code
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.It Pa /boot
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system bootstrap
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr crash 8 ,
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.Xr disklabel 8 ,
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.Xr fsck 8 ,
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.Xr halt 8 ,
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