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5.1 KiB
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171 lines
5.1 KiB
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.\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.6 1998/11/26 00:54:59 ross Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Christopher G. Demetriou. All rights reserved.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Paul Kranenburg
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" This product includes software developed by Paul Kranenburg.
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.Dd January 31, 1998
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.Dt INSTALLBOOT 8
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.Os NetBSD
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm installboot
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.Nd install disk or CD-ROM bootstrap software
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm installboot
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.Op Fl nv
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.Op Fl b Ar bn
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.Ar boot
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.Ar bootxx
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.Ar rawdiskdevice
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm installboot
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utility prepares a disk for bootstrapping.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nx Ns Tn /alpha
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disk bootstrap software is split into two parts:
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a small first-stage boot program that is written into the disklabel
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area of a disk
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.Po
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and hence is limited in size to 7680 bytes
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.Pc ,
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and a second-stage boot program that resides in a FFS, ISO-9660, or USTAR
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file system on a disk, CD-ROM image, or magnetic tape image,
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.Po
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typically with the name
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.Pa /boot
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.Pc .
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The first-stage boot program is loaded into memory by the SRM console
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software. After receiving control of the system, it loads the
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second-stage boot program from a set of filesystem block numbers that
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have been
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hard-coded into it by
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.Nm installboot .
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The second-stage boot program locates and loads the kernel.
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.Pp
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The second-stage boot program and the prototype code for the
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first-stage boot program can be found in
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.Pa /usr/mdec/boot
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and
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.Pa /usr/mdec/bootxx ,
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respectively.
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.Pa /usr/mdec/boot
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may be installed simply by copying it to the root directory of the
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partition you wish to boot from, but after it is installed
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.Nm installboot
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.Em must
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be run.
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.Pp
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The options recognized by
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.Nm installboot
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are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width -b\ bn
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.It Fl n
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Do not actually write anything on the disk.
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.It Fl v
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Verbose mode.
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.It Fl b Ar bn
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Ignore the file system type and assume that
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.Pa boot
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is contiguously present with initial block number
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.Ar bn .
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.El
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.Pp
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The arguments are:
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.Bl -tag -width rawdiskdevice
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.It Ar boot
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The name of the second-stage boot program in the file system
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where the first-stage boot program is to be installed.
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.It Ar bootxx
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The name of the prototype file for the first-stage boot program.
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.It Ar rawdiskdevice
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The name of the device corresponding to the raw whole-disk partition (the
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.Dq raw partition )
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of the disk on which the first-stage boot program is to be installed.
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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Assuming the second-stage boot program
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.Pa boot
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resides in the FFS file system mounted on
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.Pa /
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from
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.Dq sd0a ,
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you would install the first-stage boot program on the disk
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(and therefore make the disk bootable) by using the command:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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installboot /boot /usr/mdec/bootxx /dev/rsd0c
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Assuming the second-stage boot program
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.Pa boot
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resides in the ISO-9660 file system mounted on
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.Pa /mnt
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from
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.Dq vnd0a ,
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you would install the first-stage boot progam into the CD-ROM image
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(and therefore make the image bootable once burned onto a CD) by using
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the command:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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installboot /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/bootxx /dev/rvnd0c
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.Ed
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.Sh BUGS
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The
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.Nx Ns Tn /alpha
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boot blocks can only load kernels from disks'
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.Dq a
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partitions. (However, the second-stage boot
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program may be located on any FFS file system partition
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on the disk.)
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.Pp
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.Nm Installboot
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requires simultaneous access to the mounted file system and
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the disks' raw partition.
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That is not allowed with the kernel
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.Dv securelevel
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variable
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.Po
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see
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.Xr sysctl 8
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.Pc
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set to a value greater than one, or with
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.Dv securelevel
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set to one if the
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.Dq boot
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program resides in a file system on the disk's raw partition.
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.Sh "SEE ALSO"
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.Xr disklabel 8 ,
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.Xr init 8 ,
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.Xr sysctl 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nx Ns Tn /alpha
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.Nm
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command first appeared in
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.Nx 1.2 .
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