Misc formatting improvements.

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wiz 2001-12-26 01:52:55 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.3 2001/09/08 01:34:39 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.4 2001/12/26 01:52:55 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -48,50 +48,55 @@ system bootstrapping procedures
.\" .Ar -- <boot string>
.\" .Oc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Sy Power fail and crash recovery
.Ss Power fail and crash recovery
Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes.
An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed
as described in
.Xr fsck 8 .
and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
.Pp
.Sy Cold starts from disk
The disk-boot program (/usr/mdec/bootsd) will attempt to load
.Ss Cold starts from disk
The disk-boot program
.Pa ( /usr/mdec/bootsd )
will attempt to load
.Pa netbsd
from partition A of the boot device,
which must currently be an ``sd'' disk.
.Pp
.Sy Cold starts from tape
The tape-boot program (/usr/mdec/bootst) will attempt to load
which must currently be an
.Dq sd
disk.
.Ss Cold starts from tape
The tape-boot program
.Pa ( /usr/mdec/bootst )
will attempt to load
.Pa netbsd
from a SCSI tape drive.
.Pp
.Sy Cold starts over a network
The network boot program (/usr/mdec/netboot) will load
.Ss Cold starts over a network
The network boot program
.Pa ( /usr/mdec/netboot )
will load
.Pa netbsd
from the NFS root as determined by the procedure described in
.Xr diskless 8 .
Note that the MVME147 is unable to boot directly from the
network without the help of a small bootloader program
(/usr/mdec/sboot).
.Pa ( /usr/mdec/sboot ) .
.Pp
The
.Op Fl s
.Fl s
flag to the boot loader will bring the system up in single-user mode.
The
.Op Fl a
.Fl a
flag instructs the system to prompt for the location of the root filesystem
and the primary swap partition.
The
.Op Fl d
.Fl d
flag to the boot loader will bring the system up in debug mode.
Here it waits for a kernel debugger connect; see
.Xr ddb 4 .
The
.Op Fl q
.Fl q
flag to the boot loader would boot the system in
quiet mode,
.Op Fl v
.Fl v
in verbose mode.
Any extra flags or arguments, the after the -- separator,
.Ar <boot string>
@ -105,8 +110,9 @@ At any time you can break to the kernel debugger
was specified in the kernel configuration file)
by sending a serial line BREAK character.
If you do this accidentally you can continue whatever was in progress
by typing `c' followed by the return key.
.Pp
by typing
.Sq c
followed by the return key.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/installboot -compact
.It Pa /netbsd