133 lines
4.2 KiB
Groff
133 lines
4.2 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: mkbootimage.8,v 1.4 2000/06/14 17:25:49 cgd Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Christopher G. Demetriou
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed for the
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.\" NetBSD Project. See http://www.netbsd.org/ for
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.\" information about NetBSD.
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.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
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.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
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.\" <<Id: LICENSE,v 1.2 2000/06/14 15:57:33 cgd Exp>>
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.\"
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.Dd April 3, 1999
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.Dt MKBOOTIMAGE 8 alpha
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mkbootimage
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.Nd turn Alpha bootstrap programs into bootable images
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm /usr/mdec/mkbootimage
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.Op Fl nv
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.Ar infile
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.Op Ar outfile
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility creates bootable image files from
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.Nx Ns Tn /alpha
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bootstrap programs. Bootable image
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files can be placed directly on disk or tape to create bootable
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media which can be booted by the SRM console. This is
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primarily useful for creating bootable tapes or disk sets with the
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.Pa /usr/mdec/ustarboot
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bootstrap program, or for creating firmware upgrade media
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using firmware upgrade programs.
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.Pp
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The bootstrap program
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.Ar infile
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is padded to a 512-byte boundary, has a properly formed
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Alpha Boot Block prepended, and is written to the output file
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.Ar outfile .
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If no output file is specified, the result is written to
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standard output.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility does not install bootstrap programs to make
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disks bootable. To do that, use
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.Xr installboot 8 .
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Similarly, it is not necessary to use
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.Nm
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to create images to boot over the network; network-capable
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bootstrap programs are usable without modification.
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.Pp
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The options recognized by
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.Nm
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are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width flag
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.It Fl n
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Do not actually write the result to the output file or
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standard output.
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.It Fl v
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Print information about what
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.Nm
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is doing.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/ustarboot -compact
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.It Pa /usr/mdec/ustarboot
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.Dq ustar
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file system bootstrap program
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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mkbootimage as200_v5_8.exe as200_v5_8.exe.bootimage
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Create a bootable image from the (firmware image) file
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.Pa as200_v5_8.exe .
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That bootable image could then be written to floppy,
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disk, CD-ROM, or tape to create bootable firmware
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update media.
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.Pp
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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(mkbootimage /usr/mdec/ustarboot; tar cvf - netbsd) | \\
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dd of=/dev/rst0
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Make a bootable image from the bootstrap program
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.Pa /usr/mdec/ustarboot ,
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concatenate it with a tar file containing a kernel,
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and write the output to a tape. This is an example of
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how to create a tape which boots a kernel.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr boot 8 ,
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.Xr installboot 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 1.4 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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The
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.Nm
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utility was written by Chris Demetriou.
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