History log of /openbsd-src/sys/arch/alpha/stand/installboot.8 (Results 1 – 11 of 11)
Revision Date Author Comments
# c2d80be4 06-Mar-2010 jmc <jmc@openbsd.org>

remove the (now inaccurate) note about not being able to run
installboot on a mounted partition;

from J.C. Roberts


# 9490d37c 31-May-2007 jmc <jmc@openbsd.org>

convert to new .Dd format;


# b1a3cdea 10-Sep-2005 martin <martin@openbsd.org>

beef up and correct the example section


# 371254b6 06-Jun-2003 jmc <jmc@openbsd.org>

- section reorder
- new sentence, new line
- some macro fixes


# 4434d196 03-Jan-2000 pjanzen <pjanzen@openbsd.org>

.Sh "SEE ALSO" -> .Sh SEE ALSO


# 5c3dced3 09-Jul-1999 aaron <aaron@openbsd.org>

- remove all trailing whitespace
* except when it is escaped with a `\' at the end of the line
- fix remaining .Nm usage as well
- this is from a patch I received from kwesterback@home.com, who

- remove all trailing whitespace
* except when it is escaped with a `\' at the end of the line
- fix remaining .Nm usage as well
- this is from a patch I received from kwesterback@home.com, who has been
working on some scripts for fixing formatting errors in mdoc'd man pages

Ok, so there could be a cost/benefit debate with this commit, but since I have
the patch we might as well commit it...

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# 6547546b 08-Jul-1999 deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>

flesh out .Dt


# fc8533a3 23-May-1999 aaron <aaron@openbsd.org>

remove argument from .Os macros so value in /usr/share/tmac/mdoc/doc-common
is used instead; kwesterback@home.com


# dfe00690 05-May-1997 millert <millert@openbsd.org>

Updates from NetBSD (cgd):
- seriously clean up makefiles. use libsa/libkern/libz as appropriate,
and don't build the various sources into objs locally by specifying
them directly in the Make

Updates from NetBSD (cgd):
- seriously clean up makefiles. use libsa/libkern/libz as appropriate,
and don't build the various sources into objs locally by specifying
them directly in the Makefiles.
- move the secondary bootstrap down (to 0x20004000), and add a HEAP_LIMIT
so that we don't exhaust our bootstrap address space (when using the new,
not yet checked in, memory allocator).
- clean up installboot, deal with secondary bootstrap programs not on
'a' partition or 'a' partition not starting at 0.
- add padding to structures in bbinfo.h for future expansion. Add a
netbbinfo structure to allow netboot information to be hard-coded in
network boot blocks, so that they can be made to work even on systems
with firmware which doesn't support the new "ethernet address in boot
device" convention.
- move the sync() calls to the correct place in installboot.c
- remove a kludge in disk.c which was breaking multiple opens/closes
of the disk
- allow netboot ethernet address to be hard-coded into binary so that
machines with old firmware which doesn't pass it in the boot device
can work. Assume that if the ethernet address isn't passed in, it
uses the old (dain-bramaged) 'read' interface works on my 3000/300LX.
- Add setnetbootinfo, a program to hard code an ethernet address into
a network boot.
- move an 'int debug;' into boot.c (it was the only diff between boot.c and
netboot.c), and nuke netboot.c (using boot.c instead for net boot blocks).
- add cd9660 file system ops to the file system ops table in filesystem.c
- if a file name is given (i.e. BOOTED_FILE) is set, boot only that file,
but if not then try to boot "bsd", "bsd.bak", "bsd.old", and
"obsd" (in that order) until one is found or until the list of names
is exhausted.
- add support for reading gzipped kernels.
- use strerror() to print errors, rather than just printing error numbers
- if no disk label exists, fake one up
- slightly relax the block size checks in bootxx.c; they were a bit to paranoid

And local changes:
- don't build a copy of libsa/libkern/libz for each boot prog,
just build a single copy and use it for everything.

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# 663c2095 07-Apr-1997 millert <millert@openbsd.org>

We run OpenBSD. Also note that installboot may be run on the ``c''
partition instead of ``a'' to avoid problems with securelevel > 0.


# 3a630e3f 24-Jan-1997 niklas <niklas@openbsd.org>

Sync with NetBSD 961207