Document fs, menu, rndseed, and splash commands.

Add rescue(8) to SEE ALSO.
Also a little copy editing.
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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.2 2014/08/16 08:43:12 apb Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.3 2014/08/16 11:41:37 apb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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and its clones
.Pc
that can run
.Nx Ns /x86
.Nx Ns /i386
or
.Nx Ns /amd64
can use any of the following boot procedures, depending on what the hardware and
.Tn BIOS
support:
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text and displaying a menu allowing boot commands to be easily chosen.
See
.Xr boot.cfg 5 .
.Pp
.Ss Boot Protocol
The
.Nx Ns /x86
boot loader can boot a kernel using either the native
@ -347,6 +349,13 @@ Without an argument, print the current setting.
.Va device
is of the form specified in
.Cm boot .
.It Ic fs Va file
Load a file system image from the specified
.Ar file ,
and request the kernel to use it as the root file system.
The
.Xr makefs 8
utility may be used to create suitable file system images.
.It Ic help
Print an overview about commands and arguments.
.It Ic load Va module Op Ar arguments
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.Pp
In addition to the
.Cm boot
options specified above, the DOM0 kernel accepts
options specified above, the
.Tn Xen
DOM0 kernel accepts
.Po Ar arguments
being separated with spaces
.Pc :
@ -458,6 +469,10 @@ Print a directory listing of
containing inode number, filename, and file type.
.Pa path
can contain a device specification.
.It Ic menu
Display the boot menu and initiate a countdown,
similarly to what would have happened if interactive mode
had not been entered.
.It Ic modules Bro Ar on | off | enabled | disabled Brc
The values
.Ar enabled , on
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.El
.It Ic quit
Reboot the system.
.It Ic rndseed Ar file
Load the specified
.Ar file
and request the kernel to use it as a seed for the
.Xr rnd 4
random number generator.
The
.Ar file
should be in the private format used by
.Xr rndctl 8 ,
and should have been saved by
.Ql "rndctl -S"
shortly before the previous shutdown.
See the
.Va random_seed
and
.Va random_file
variables in
.Xr rc.conf 5 ,
and the
.Pa /etc/rc.d/random_seed
script, for a way to manage the seed file.
Using the same seed file on more then one host,
or for more than one boot on the same host,
will reduce the quality of random numbers
and may impact system security.
.It Ic userconf Va command
Pass command
.Va command
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These commands are processed before the interactive
.Xr userconf 4
shell is executed, if requested.
.It Ic splash Ar file
Load a graphical image from the specified
.Ar file
and request the kernel to use it as a splash screen.
The
.Ar file
should contain an image in one of these formats:
JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, or PIC.
.It Ic vesa Bro Va modenum | Ar on | off | enabled | disabled | list Brc
Initialise the video card to the specified resolution and bit depth.
The
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.Xr multiboot 8 ,
.Xr pxeboot 8 ,
.Xr reboot 8 ,
.Xr rescue 8 ,
.Xr shutdown 8 ,
.Xr boothowto 9
.Sh BUGS