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.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.8 2002/01/15 16:15:25 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.9 2002/01/15 16:38:29 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -48,20 +48,20 @@ and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
The X68000/X68030 system boots from the device
which is determined by the configuration of
battery-backuped SRAM.
By default, the boot rom attempt to boot from
floppy disk drive (from 0 to 3) first,
and then attempt to boot from hard disk (SASI or SCSI).
By default, the boot ROM attempts to boot from
floppy disk drives (from 0 to 3) first,
and then attempts to boot from hard disk (SASI or SCSI).
On the
.Nx Ns Tn /x68k Ns ,
.Nx Ns Tn /x68k ,
booting from SCSI disks (sd??)
and 2HD floppy disks (fd?a, fd?c) is currently supported.
.Ss Bootstrappinging from a floppy
.Ss Bootstrapping from a floppy
When the floppy disk is selected as the boot device, the initial
program loader of the IOCS (firmware) reads
program loader of the IOCS (firmware) reads the
.Pa fdboot_ufs
program at the top of the disk, and then the fdboot_ufs program loads the
.Pa /boot
program from the FFS or LFS filesystem. Normally, the
program from the FFS or LFS file system. Normally, the
.Pa /boot
program then loads the
.Nx
@ -69,16 +69,18 @@ kernel
.Pa /netbsd
from the same floppy. In addition, the
.Pa /boot
program has abilities to uncompress gzip'ed kernel, to read
the kernel from other disks of other filesystems etc (see below).
program has abilities to uncompress gzip'ed kernels, to read
the kernel from other disks of other file systems etc (see below).
.Pp
For floppy disks, fdboot_ustar is also provided to read a large
kernel which does not fit with a single floppy.
For floppy disks,
.Pa fdboot_ustar
is also provided to read large
kernels which do not fit one a single floppy.
.Ss Bootstrapping from a SCSI hard disk
When a SCSI hard disk is selected as the boot device, the initial
program loader on the SCSI host adapter's ROM reads the
operationg system-independent IPL menu program at the top of the disk.
IPL menu program recognizes the partition table, and selects the partition
operating system-independent IPL menu program at the top of the disk.
The IPL menu program recognizes the partition table, and selects the partition
to read the operating system kernel. During this phase, when the
HELP key on the keyboard is pressed, the IPL menu program displays
the partition menu of that disk to prompt the user to select the boot
@ -86,14 +88,14 @@ partition (although the
.Nx
implementation of the IPL menu,
.Pa /usr/mdec/mboot ,
does not have this functionallity).
does not have this functionality).
.Pp
Next, the IPL menu reads the OS-dependent boot program from the
top of the selected partition. For
.Nx
FFS/LFS filesystem
FFS/LFS file systems
.Pa sdboot_ufs
program is used. The
is used. The
.Pa sdboot_ufs
program then loads the
.Pa /boot
@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ booting sd0a:netbsd - starting in 5
.Ed
.Pp
After a countdown, the system image listed will be loaded. (In the
above example, it will be
example above, it will be
.Dq Li sd0a:netbsd
which is the file
.Nm netbsd
@ -121,29 +123,29 @@ Pressing a key within the time limit will enter interactive mode.
.Ss Interactive mode
In interactive mode, the boot loader will present a prompt, allowing
input of these commands:
.Bl -tag -width 04n -offset 04n
.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset indent
.It Xo Ic boot
.Op Va device : Ns
.Op Va filename
.Op Ar device : Ns
.Op Ar filename
.Op Fl adqsv
.Xc
The default
.Va device
.Ar device
will be set to the disk that the boot loader was
loaded from.
To boot from an alternate disk, the full name of the device should
be given at the prompt.
.Va device
.Ar device
is of the form
.Xo Va xd
.Op Va N Ns Op Va x
.Xo Ar xd
.Op Ar N Ns Op Ar x
.Xc
where
.Va xd
.Ar xd
is the device from which to boot,
.Va N
.Ar N
is the unit number, and
.Va x
.Ar x
is the partition letter.
.Pp
The following list of supported devices may vary from installation to
@ -158,19 +160,20 @@ Floppy drives as numbered by the IOCS.
.El
.Pp
The default
.Va filename
.Ar filename
is
.Pa netbsd ;
if the boot loader fails to successfully
open that image, it then tries
.Pa netbsd.gz
(expected to be a kernel image compressed by gzip).
(expected to be a kernel image compressed by
.Xr gzip 1 ) .
Alternate system images can be loaded by just specifying the name of the image.
.Pp
Options are:
.Bl -tag -width xxx
.It Fl a
Prompt for the location of the root filesystem and the system crash
Prompt for the location of the root file system and the system crash
dump device.
.It Fl d
Bring the system up in debug mode. Here it waits for a kernel