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.Dd July 23, 1991
.Dt BOOT 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm boot
.Nd
system bootstrapping procedures
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Tn NetBSD
kernel is started by placing it at the beginning of physical memory
and transferring to the entry point.
Since the system is not reenterable,
it is necessary to read it in from disk or tape
each time it is to be bootstrapped.
.Pp
.Sy Power fail and crash recovery.
Normally, the system will boot itself at power-up or after crashes.
An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed,
and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
.Pp
.Sy Cold starts.
At power up, all DECstation ROMs consult the
.Nm haltaction
environment
variable in EEPROM to determine whether or not to attempt to boot
automatically.   If this
variable is set to \fBh\fR, the ROM prints a prompt on the console and
waits for user commands.   If set to \fBb\fR, the ROM attempts to autoboot.
.Pp
On the DECstation 2100 and 3100, the path used for automatic booting is
stored in the
.Nm bootpath
environment variable.   The path is made up of a 
device type specifier (e.g., rz, tz, mop or tftp) followed by
a triplet in the form (x,y,z), followed by a filename to load.
.Pp
Within the triplet, x is the controller (always 0), y is the SCSI id of
the drive to
boot from or 0 for net boots, and z is the partition to boot from
(usually 0 for SCSI devices, always zero for network booting.
For network boots, () may be specified instead of (0,0,0).
.Pp
The filename is optional for bootp/tftp and mop booting, since in
these cases the network protocol can be used to determine which
file to boot.  When booting off the tape, no filename should be
specified, and when booting off of disk, the filename of a kernel
must be specified.  Generally, the kernel is named
.Nm netbsd.
.Pp
An example bootpath setting would be:
.nf
.sp 1
.ce 1
setenv bootpath rz(0,1,0)netbsd
.fi
.Pp
For automatic boots, the ROM automatically passes a
.Fl a
argument to the boot
loader, requesting that
.Tn NetBSD
attempt to come up to multi-user mode.   At the boot ROM prompt,
the user may boot
.Tn NetBSD
with either the
.Nm auto
or the
.Nm boot
command.   If the
.Nm auto
command is used, the
.Fl a
argument is passed to the kernel, requesting a multi-user boot; otherwise
the
.Fl s
argument is passed, requesting that
.Tn NetBSD
boot to single user mode.
.Pp
When either the
.Nm boot
or the
.Nm auto
command is issued with no arguments, the kernel specified in the bootpath
environment variable is booted.   An alternative kernel may be specified
with the
.Fl f
flag, followed by the path of the kernel to boot, as described above.
For example:
.sp 1
.ce 1
boot -f rz(0,4,0)netbsd.new
.Pp
On TurboChannel machines (all DECstation 5000 models), the boot path
is specified in the boot environment variable, along with any arguments
to be passed to the kernel.   Note that to specify boot arguments (e.g.,
.Fl a)
when setting the
.Nm boot
environment variable, the filename and arguments
must be enclosed in quotes.   For example:
.nf
.sp 1
.ce 1
setenv boot "3/rz4/netbsd -a"
.fi
.Pp
The device from which to boot is specified as the TurboChannel slot
number, a TurboChannel-option-specific device name, and a path to the
file to load, all seperated by slashes.   You can get a list of the
devices installed in your TurboChannel slots (as well as any built-in
devices which appear as TurboChannel slots) by typing the
.Nm cnfg
command
at the boot prompt.   You can get more detailed information about a specific
TurboChannel option by typing
.Nm cnfg
followed by the slot number of that
option.
.Pp
For SCSI devices, the option-specific device identifier is either rz# for
disks or tz# for tapes, where # is the SCSI id of the device.   For network
devices, the option-specific protocol identifier is either mop or tftp.
Filename requirements are as for the DECstation 2100 and 3100.
.Pp
To start
.Tn NetBSD
from the boot prompt, the
.Nm boot
command must be used.   With no arguments, this simply boots the default
kernel with the default arguments as set with
.Nm setenv
.Nm boot.
If no boot environment variable is set or if an alternative kernel is to be
booted, the path of that kernel may be specified after the boot command as
described above, and any arguments may be passed similarly.   For example:
.sp 1
.ce 1
boot 3/rz4/netbsd.new -a
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr crash 8m ,
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr halt 8 ,
.Xr init 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8 ,
.Xr rc 8 ,
.Xr shutdown 8 ,
.Xr syslogd 8 ,
.Xr reboot 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command is
.Ud .