update this to somewhat closer to reality.

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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.6 1997/03/13 05:00:55 perry Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.7 1997/04/13 13:46:56 mrg Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" @(#)boot_sparc.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
.Dd April 13, 1997
.Dt BOOT 8 sparc
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm boot
.Nd
system bootstrapping procedures
.\" .Sh SYNOPSIS
.\" .Nm boot
.\" .Op Fl n
.\" .Op Fl q
.\" .Oo
.\" .Ar -- <boot string>
.\" .Oc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm boot
.Op Fl n
.Op Fl q
.Op Fl d
.Oo
.Ar -- <boot string>
.Oc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Sy Power fail and crash recovery.
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.
.Pp
.Sy Cold starts
The SPARC system currently uses the SunOS bootstrap loaders.
This will be changed in a future version of the system.
The SunOS boot will attempt to load
The
.Nx
boot
.Pa netbsd
from partition A of the boot device,
from partition a of the boot device,
which must currently be an ``sd'' disk.
.Pp
The
.Op Fl s
flag to the SunOS boot loader will being the system up in single-user mode.
flag to the boot loader will being the system up in single-user mode.
The
.Op Fl a
flag instructs the system to prompt for the location of the root filesystem
and the primary swap partition.
.\"The
.\".Op Fl d
.\"flag to the SunOS boot loader will bring the system up in debug mode.
.\"Here it waits for a kernel debugger connect; see
.\".Xr kgdb 8 .
The
.Op 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 gdb 8 .
Any extra flags or arguments, the after the -- separator,
.Ar <boot string>
are passed to the boot prom.
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.Xr init 8 ,
.Xr rc 8 ,
.Xr shutdown 8 ,
.Xr syslogd 8
.Sh BUGS
The use of Sun disk labels, without the ability to write them,
is problematic.
.Xr syslogd 8 ,
.Xr installboot 8 .