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37.Dd February 25, 2021
38.Dt BOOT 8 amiga
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm boot
42.Nd
43system bootstrapping procedures
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45.Ss Power fail and crash recovery
46When the
47.Nx
48kernel is booted normally (using one of the two methods discussed below),
49it initializes itself and proceeds to boot the system.
50An automatic consistency check of the file systems takes place,
51and unless this fails, the system comes up to multi-user operations.
52The proper way to shut the system down is with the
53.Xr shutdown 8
54command.
55.Pp
56If the system crashes, it will enter the kernel debugger,
57.Xr ddb 4 ,
58if it is configured in the kernel.
59If the debugger is not present,
60or the debugger is exited, the system will attempt a dump to the
61configured dump device (which will be automatically recovered with
62.Xr savecore 8
63during the next boot cycle).
64After the dump is complete (successful
65or not), the system will attempt a reboot.
66.Ss Booting NetBSD using the bootloader
67When a bootable
68.Nx
69partition is created by means of HDTOOLBOX or another RDB editing program
70and a bootblock has been copied there by
71.Xr amiga/installboot 8
72and the boot priority of the
73.Nx
74partition is either the highest or the
75.Nx
76partition is selected by means of the boot menu,
77the Amiga ROM will automatically start the
78.Nx
79bootloader.
80By default it will, after a short timeout, load the kernel image
81.Pa /netbsd
82and attempt to boot it into multi-user mode.
83This behaviour can be changed by
84typing in an alternate command sequence.
85The command line looks like:
86.Bd -ragged -offset indent
87.Ar kernel-path
88.Op Fl abkpqsvACDS
89.Op Fl c Ar model
90.Op Fl m Ar memsize
91.Op Fl n Ar memsegments
92.Op Fl I Ar mask
93.Ed
94.Bl -tag -width flag
95.It kernel-path
96This gives you the opportunity to boot another kernel, say:
97.Pa /netbsd.old .
98The default is
99.Pa /netbsd .
100.It Fl a
101Autoboot into multi-user mode (default).
102.It Fl b
103Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump
104device, and the path to
105.Xr init 8 .
106.It Fl c Ar model
107force machine
108.Ar model .
109Use 32000+(Qlogic chip revision) for the DraCo.
110.It Fl k
111Reserve the first 4M of fastmem.
112.It Fl m Ar memsize
113Force fastmem size to be
114.Ar memsize
115kBytes.
116.It Fl n
117maximum number of
118.Ar segments
119of memory to use, encoded as follows: 0 (default): 1 segment, 1:
1202 segments, 2: 3 or more segments.
121.It Fl p
122Select kernel load segment by priority instead of size.
123.It Fl q
124Boot in quiet mode.
125.It Fl s
126Boot into single-user mode.
127.It Fl v
128Boot in verbose mode.
129.It Fl A
130Enable AGA display modes.
131.It Fl C
132Use the serial port as console.
133.It Fl D
134Enter the kernel debugger (best used with
135.Fl S ) .
136.It Fl I Ar mask
137inhibit sync negotiation as follows: The
138.Ar mask
139is a bitmap expressed in C notation (e.g., 0xff)
140with 4*8bits, each bit, if set to 1, disabling sync negotiation for
141the corresponding target.
142Note that this only applies to (some of the)
143real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE.
144The bytes are used up
145from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
146.It Fl S
147include kernel debug symbols (for use by
148.Fl D ) .
149.El
150.Ss Booting NetBSD using the loadbsd program
151When you want (or have to) start
152.Nx
153from AmigaOS, you have to use the
154.Ic loadbsd
155program that is supplied in the utils directory of the distribution.
156The loadbsd command line specification is:
157.Bd -ragged -offset indent
158.Nm loadbsd
159.Op Fl abkpqstvACDSZ
160.Op Fl c Ar model
161.Op Fl m Ar memsize
162.Op Fl n Ar memsegments
163.Op Fl I Ar mask
164.Ar kernel-path
165.Ed
166.Pp
167Description of options:
168.Bl -tag -width flag
169.It Fl a
170Autoboot into multi-user mode.
171.It Fl b
172Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump
173device, and the path to
174.Xr init 8 .
175.It Fl c
176force machine model.
177.It Fl k
178Reserve the first 4M of fastmem.
179.It Fl m
180Force fastmem size to be
181.Ar memsize
182kBytes.
183.It Fl n
184maximum number of
185.Ar segments
186of memory to use, encoded as follows: 0 (default): 1 segment, 1:
1872 segments, 2: 3 or more segments.
188.It Fl p
189Select kernel load segment by priority instead of size.
190.It Fl q
191Boot in quiet mode.
192.It Fl s
193Boot into single-user mode.
194.It Fl t
195Test loading of the kernel but don't start
196.Nx .
197.It Fl v
198Boot in verbose mode.
199.It Fl A
200enable AGA display modes.
201.It Fl C
202Use the serial port as console
203.It Fl D
204Enter the kernel debugger (best used with
205.Fl S ) .
206.It Fl I Ar mask
207inhibit sync negotiation as follows: The
208.Ar mask
209is a bitmap expressed in hexadecimal (e.g., ff)
210with 4*8bits, each bit, if set to 1, disabling sync negotiation for
211the corresponding target.
212Note that this only applies to (some of the)
213real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE.
214The bytes are used up
215from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
216.It Fl S
217include kernel debug symbols (for use by
218.Fl D ) .
219.It Fl Z
220Force load via chip memory.
221Won't work if kernel is larger than the chip memory size or on the
222DraCo.
223.El
224.Pp
225Note: Because the loadbsd program can only read kernels from a AmigaOS
226filesystem, the file
227.Ar /netbsd
228is often not the same as the actual kernel booted.
229This can cause some programs to fail.
230However, note that you can use third-party Berkeley
231filesystems such as bffs to access the
232.Nx
233root partition from AmigaOS.
234.Sh FILES
235.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 -compact
236.It Pa /netbsd
237system kernel
238.It Pa /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
239RDB device primary boot block for FFSv1 (and ustarfs)
240.It Pa /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
241RDB device primary boot block for FFSv2
242.It Pa /usr/mdec/bootxx_fd
243floppy disk primary boot block
244.It Pa /usr/mdec/boot.amiga
245secondary bootstrap
246.It Pa /boot.amiga
247secondary bootstrap (installed)
248.El
249.Sh SEE ALSO
250.Xr ddb 4 ,
251.Xr amiga/installboot 8 ,
252.Xr fsck_ffs 8 ,
253.Xr newfs 8 ,
254.Xr savecore 8 ,
255.Xr shutdown 8
256.Sh BUGS
257Due to code size restrictions, you can't currently use an old-style file
258system (created with
259.Xr newfs 8
260-O
261or with
262.Nx 0.9 )
263with the boot block.
264You can use
265.Ic loadbsd
266to boot from AmigaOS, or upgrade the file system with
267.Ar fsck_ffs -c 2 .
268