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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.6 1997/03/13 05:00:55 perry Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.7 1997/04/13 13:46:56 mrg 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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.\"
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.\" @(#)boot_sparc.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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.\"
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.Dd April 19, 1994
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.Dd April 13, 1997
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.Dt BOOT 8 sparc
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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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.\" .Sh SYNOPSIS
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.\" .Nm boot
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.\" .Op Fl n
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.\" .Op Fl q
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.\" .Oo
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.\" .Ar -- <boot string>
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.\" .Oc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm boot
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.Op Fl n
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.Op Fl q
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.Op Fl d
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.Oo
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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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Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes.
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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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The SPARC system currently uses the SunOS bootstrap loaders.
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This will be changed in a future version of the system.
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The SunOS boot will attempt to load
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The
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.Nx
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boot
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.Pa netbsd
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from partition A of the boot device,
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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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.Pp
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The
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.Op Fl s
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flag to the SunOS boot loader will being the system up in single-user mode.
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flag to the boot loader will being the system up in single-user mode.
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The
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.Op 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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.\"flag to the SunOS 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 kgdb 8 .
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The
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.Op 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 gdb 8 .
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Any extra flags or arguments, the after the -- separator,
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.Ar <boot string>
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are passed to the boot prom.
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.Xr init 8 ,
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.Xr rc 8 ,
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.Xr shutdown 8 ,
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.Xr syslogd 8
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.Sh BUGS
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The use of Sun disk labels, without the ability to write them,
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is problematic.
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.Xr syslogd 8 ,
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.Xr installboot 8 .
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