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41.Dd May 8, 1997
42.Dt BOOT 8 amiga
43.Os
44.Sh NAME
45.Nm boot
46.Nd
47system bootstrapping procedures
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49.Sy Power fail and crash recovery
50.Pp
51When the
52.Nx
53kernel is booted normally (using one of the two methods discussed below),
54it initializes itself and proceeds to boot the system.  An automatic
55consistency check of the file systems takes place, and unless this
56fails, the system comes up to multi-user operations.  The proper way
57to shut the system down is with the
58.Xr shutdown 8
59command.
60.Pp
61If the system crashes, it will enter the kernel debugger,
62.Xr ddb 8 ,
63if it is configured in the kernel.  If the debugger is not present,
64or the debugger is exited, the system will attempt a dump to the
65configured dump device (which will be automatically recovered with
66.Xr savecore 8
67during the next boot cycle).  After the dump is complete (successful
68or not), the system will attempt a reboot.
69.Pp
70.Sy Booting NetBSD using the bootloader
71.Pp
72When a bootable
73.Nx
74partition is created by means of HDTOOLBOX or another RDB editing program
75and a bootblock has been copied there by
76.Xr installboot 8
77and the boot priority of the
78.Nx
79partion is either the highest or the
80.Nx
81partition is selected by means of the boot menu,
82the Amiga ROM will automatically start the
83.Nx
84bootloader. By default it will, after a short timeout, load the kernel image
85.Pa /netbsd
86and attempt to boot it into multi-user mode. This behaviour can be changed by
87typing in an alternate command sequence. The command line looks like:
88.Bd -ragged -offset indent
89.Ar kernel-path
90.Op Fl abknpqstvADZ
91.Op Fl c Ar model
92.Op Fl m Ar memsize
93.Op Fl n Ar memsegments
94.Op Fl I Ar mask
95.Op Fl S Ar amount
96.Op Fl T Ar amount
97.Ed
98
99.Bl -tag -width flag
100.It kernel-path
101This gives you the opportunity to boot another kernel, say:
102/netbsd.old.
103The default is
104/netbsd
105
106.It Fl a
107Autoboot into multi-user mode (default).
108.It Fl b
109Ask for the root device the kernel must use.
110.It Fl c Ar model
111force machine
112.Ar model .
113Use 32000+(Qlogic chip revision) for the DraCo.
114.It Fl k
115Reserve the first 4M of fastmem.
116.It Fl m Ar memsize
117Force fastmem size to be
118.Ar memsize
119kBytes.
120.It Fl n
121maximum number of
122.Ar segments
123of memory to use, encoded as follows: 0 (default): 1 segment, 1:
1242 segments, 2: 3 or more segments.
125.It Fl p
126Select kernel load segment by priority instead of size.
127.It Fl q
128Boot in quiet mode.
129.It Fl b
130Ask for a root device
131.It Fl s
132Boot into single-user mode
133.It Fl v
134Boot in verbose mode.
135.It Fl D
136Enter the kernel debugger (best used with -S)
137.It Fl I Ar mask
138inhibit sync negotiation as follows: The
139.Ar mask
140is a bitmap expressed in C notation (e.g., 0xff)
141with 4*8bits, each bit, if set to 1, disabling sync negotiation for
142the corresponding target. Note that this only applies to (some of the)
143real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE. The bytes are used up
144from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
145.It Fl S
146Load the  kernel symbols
147.El
148
149.Pp
150.Sy Booting NetBSD using the loadbsd program
151.Pp
152When you want (or have to) start
153.Nx
154from AmigaOS, you have to use the
155.Xr loadbsd
156program that is supplied in the utils directory of the distribution.
157The loadbsd command line specification is:
158.Bd -ragged -offset indent
159.Nm loadbsd
160.Op Fl abknpstADZ
161.Op Fl c Ar model
162.Op Fl m Ar memsize
163.Op Fl n Ar memsegments
164.Op Fl I Ar mask
165.Op Fl S Ar amount
166.Op Fl T Ar amount
167.Ar kernel-path
168.Ed
169.Pp
170Description of options:
171.Bl -tag -width flag
172.It Fl a
173Autoboot into multi-user mode.
174.It Fl b
175Ask for the root device the kernel must use.
176.It Fl c
177force machine model.
178.It Fl k
179Reserve the first 4M of fastmem.
180.It Fl m
181Force fastmem size to be
182.Ar memsize
183kBytes.
184.It Fl n
185maximum number of
186.Ar segments
187of memory to use, encoded as follows: 0 (default): 1 segment, 1:
1882 segments, 2: 3 or more segments.
189.It Fl p
190Select kernel load segment by priority instead of size.
191.It Fl s
192Boot into single-user mode.
193.It Fl t
194Test loading of the kernel but don't start
195.Nx .
196.It Fl A
197enable AGA modes.
198.It Fl D
199Enter the kernel debugger after booting. Best with -S.
200.It Fl I Ar mask
201inhibit sync negotiation as follows: The
202.Ar mask
203is a bitmap expressed in hexadecimal (e.g., ff)
204with 4*8bits, each bit, if set to 1, disabling sync negotiation for
205the corresponding target. Note that this only applies to (some of the)
206real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE. The bytes are used up
207from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
208.It Fl S
209include kernel debug symbols (for use by -D).
210.It Fl Z
211Force load via chip memory. Won't work if kernel is larger than the chip
212memory size or on the DraCo.
213.El
214.Pp
215Note: Because the loadbsd program can only read kernels from a AmigaOS
216filesystem, the file
217.Ar /netbsd
218is often not the same as the actual kernel booted. This can cause some
219programs to fail. However, note that you can use third-party Berkeley
220filesystems such as bffs to access the NetBSD root partition from AmigaOS.
221.Sh FILES
222.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/xxboot -compact
223.It Pa /netbsd
224system kernel
225.It Pa /usr/mdec/xxboot
226RDB device boot block
227.It Pa /usr/mdec/fdboot
228floppy disk boot block
229.El
230.Sh BUGS
231Due to code size restrictions, you can't currently use a old-style file
232system (created with
233.Xr newfs
234-O
235or with
236.Nx 0.9 )
237with the boot block. You can use
238.Xr loadbsd
239to boot from AmigaOS, or upgrade the file system with
240.Ar fsck_ffs -c 2 .
241.Sh SEE ALSO
242.Xr ddb 8 ,
243.Xr fsck_ffs 8 ,
244.Xr installboot 8 ,
245.Xr newfs 8 ,
246.Xr savecore 8 ,
247.Xr shutdown 8
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