BOOT(8) NetBSD/mvme68k System Manager's Manual BOOT(8)
NAME
boot -- system bootstrapping procedures
DESCRIPTION
Power fail and crash recovery Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes. An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed as described in fsck(8). and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations. Cold starts from disk The disk-boot program (/usr/mdec/bootsd) will attempt to load netbsd from partition A of the boot device, which must currently be an ``sd'' disk. Cold starts from tape The tape-boot program (/usr/mdec/bootst) will attempt to load netbsd from a SCSI tape drive. Cold starts over a network The network boot program (/usr/mdec/netboot) will load netbsd from the NFS root as determined by the procedure described in diskless(8). Note that the MVME147 is unable to boot directly from the network without the help of a small bootloader program (/usr/mdec/sboot). Boot program options -a Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump device, and the path to init(8). -d Bring the system up in debug mode. Here it waits for a kernel debugger connect; see ddb(4). -q Boot the system in quiet mode. -s Bring the system up in single-user mode. -v Boot the system in verbose mode. Any extra flags or arguments, or the <boot string> after the -- separator are passed to the boot PROM. Other flags are currently ignored. At any time you can break to the kernel debugger ddb(4) (assuming options DDB was specified in the kernel configuration file) by sending a serial line BREAK character. If you do this accidentally you can continue what- ever was in progress by typing `c' followed by the return key.
FILES
/netbsd system code /usr/mdec/bootxx first-level boot block for disks /usr/mdec/stboot first-level boot block for tapes /usr/mdec/bootsd second-level boot block for UFS disks /usr/mdec/bootst second-level boot block for tapes /usr/mdec/netboot boot program for NFS (diskless) boot /usr/mdec/sboot network bootstrap program for MVME147 /usr/mdec/installboot program to install bootxx on a disk
SEE ALSO
disklabel(8), fsck(8), halt(8), init(8), rc(8), shutdown(8), syslogd(8) NetBSD 5.1.2 April 8, 2003 NetBSD 5.1.2
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