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37.Dd April 8, 2003
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.  An automatic
50consistency check of the file systems takes place, and unless this
51fails, the system comes up to multi-user operations.  The proper way
52to 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.  If the debugger is not present,
59or the debugger is exited, the system will attempt a dump to the
60configured dump device (which will be automatically recovered with
61.Xr savecore 8
62during the next boot cycle).  After the dump is complete (successful
63or not), the system will attempt a reboot.
64.Ss Booting NetBSD using the bootloader
65When a bootable
66.Nx
67partition is created by means of HDTOOLBOX or another RDB editing program
68and a bootblock has been copied there by
69.Xr installboot 8
70and the boot priority of the
71.Nx
72partition is either the highest or the
73.Nx
74partition is selected by means of the boot menu,
75the Amiga ROM will automatically start the
76.Nx
77bootloader. By default it will, after a short timeout, load the kernel image
78.Pa /netbsd
79and attempt to boot it into multi-user mode. This behaviour can be changed by
80typing in an alternate command sequence. The command line looks like:
81.Bd -ragged -offset indent
82.Ar kernel-path
83.Op Fl abknpqstvADZ
84.Op Fl c Ar model
85.Op Fl m Ar memsize
86.Op Fl n Ar memsegments
87.Op Fl I Ar mask
88.Op Fl S Ar amount
89.Op Fl T Ar amount
90.Ed
91.Pp
92.Bl -tag -width flag
93.It kernel-path
94This gives you the opportunity to boot another kernel, say:
95.Pa /netbsd.old .
96The default is
97.Pa /netbsd .
98.It Fl a
99Autoboot into multi-user mode (default).
100.It Fl b
101Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump
102device, and the path to
103.Xr init 8 .
104.It Fl c Ar model
105force machine
106.Ar model .
107Use 32000+(Qlogic chip revision) for the DraCo.
108.It Fl k
109Reserve the first 4M of fastmem.
110.It Fl m Ar memsize
111Force fastmem size to be
112.Ar memsize
113kBytes.
114.It Fl n
115maximum number of
116.Ar segments
117of memory to use, encoded as follows: 0 (default): 1 segment, 1:
1182 segments, 2: 3 or more segments.
119.It Fl p
120Select kernel load segment by priority instead of size.
121.It Fl q
122Boot in quiet mode.
123.It Fl s
124Boot into single-user mode.
125.It Fl v
126Boot in verbose mode.
127.It Fl D
128Enter the kernel debugger (best used with -S)
129.It Fl I Ar mask
130inhibit sync negotiation as follows: The
131.Ar mask
132is a bitmap expressed in C notation (e.g., 0xff)
133with 4*8bits, each bit, if set to 1, disabling sync negotiation for
134the corresponding target. Note that this only applies to (some of the)
135real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE. The bytes are used up
136from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
137.It Fl S
138Load the  kernel symbols
139.El
140.Ss Booting NetBSD using the loadbsd program
141When you want (or have to) start
142.Nx
143from AmigaOS, you have to use the
144.Ic loadbsd
145program that is supplied in the utils directory of the distribution.
146The loadbsd command line specification is:
147.Bd -ragged -offset indent
148.Nm loadbsd
149.Op Fl abknpstADZ
150.Op Fl c Ar model
151.Op Fl m Ar memsize
152.Op Fl n Ar memsegments
153.Op Fl I Ar mask
154.Op Fl S Ar amount
155.Op Fl T Ar amount
156.Ar kernel-path
157.Ed
158.Pp
159Description of options:
160.Bl -tag -width flag
161.It Fl a
162Autoboot into multi-user mode.
163.It Fl b
164Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump
165device, and the path to
166.Xr init 8 .
167.It Fl c
168force machine model.
169.It Fl k
170Reserve the first 4M of fastmem.
171.It Fl m
172Force fastmem size to be
173.Ar memsize
174kBytes.
175.It Fl n
176maximum number of
177.Ar segments
178of memory to use, encoded as follows: 0 (default): 1 segment, 1:
1792 segments, 2: 3 or more segments.
180.It Fl p
181Select kernel load segment by priority instead of size.
182.It Fl s
183Boot into single-user mode.
184.It Fl t
185Test loading of the kernel but don't start
186.Nx .
187.It Fl A
188enable AGA modes.
189.It Fl D
190Enter the kernel debugger after booting. Best with -S.
191.It Fl I Ar mask
192inhibit sync negotiation as follows: The
193.Ar mask
194is a bitmap expressed in hexadecimal (e.g., ff)
195with 4*8bits, each bit, if set to 1, disabling sync negotiation for
196the corresponding target. Note that this only applies to (some of the)
197real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE. The bytes are used up
198from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
199.It Fl S
200include kernel debug symbols (for use by -D).
201.It Fl Z
202Force load via chip memory. Won't work if kernel is larger than the chip
203memory size or on the DraCo.
204.El
205.Pp
206Note: Because the loadbsd program can only read kernels from a AmigaOS
207filesystem, the file
208.Ar /netbsd
209is often not the same as the actual kernel booted. This can cause some
210programs to fail. However, note that you can use third-party Berkeley
211filesystems such as bffs to access the
212.Nx
213root partition from AmigaOS.
214.Sh FILES
215.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs -compact
216.It Pa /netbsd
217system kernel
218.It Pa /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs
219RDB device primary boot block
220.It Pa /usr/mdec/bootxx_fd
221floppy disk primary boot block
222.It Pa /usr/mdec/boot.amiga
223secondary bootstrap
224.It Pa /boot.amiga
225secondary bootstrap (installed)
226.El
227.Sh SEE ALSO
228.Xr ddb 4 ,
229.Xr fsck_ffs 8 ,
230.Xr installboot 8 ,
231.Xr newfs 8 ,
232.Xr savecore 8 ,
233.Xr shutdown 8
234.Sh BUGS
235Due to code size restrictions, you can't currently use an old-style file
236system (created with
237.Xr newfs 8
238-O
239or with
240.Nx 0.9 )
241with the boot block. You can use
242.Ic loadbsd
243to boot from AmigaOS, or upgrade the file system with
244.Ar fsck_ffs -c 2 .
245