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37.Dd February 17, 2017
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.Pp
95.Bl -tag -width flag
96.It kernel-path
97This gives you the opportunity to boot another kernel, say:
98.Pa /netbsd.old .
99The default is
100.Pa /netbsd .
101.It Fl a
102Autoboot into multi-user mode (default).
103.It Fl b
104Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump
105device, and the path to
106.Xr init 8 .
107.It Fl c Ar model
108force machine
109.Ar model .
110Use 32000+(Qlogic chip revision) for the DraCo.
111.It Fl k
112Reserve the first 4M of fastmem.
113.It Fl m Ar memsize
114Force fastmem size to be
115.Ar memsize
116kBytes.
117.It Fl n
118maximum number of
119.Ar segments
120of memory to use, encoded as follows: 0 (default): 1 segment, 1:
1212 segments, 2: 3 or more segments.
122.It Fl p
123Select kernel load segment by priority instead of size.
124.It Fl q
125Boot in quiet mode.
126.It Fl s
127Boot into single-user mode.
128.It Fl v
129Boot in verbose mode.
130.It Fl A
131Enable AGA display modes.
132.It Fl C
133Use the serial port as console.
134.It Fl D
135Enter the kernel debugger (best used with
136.Fl 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.
143Note that this only applies to (some of the)
144real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE.
145The bytes are used up
146from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
147.It Fl S
148include kernel debug symbols (for use by
149.Fl D ) .
150.El
151.Ss Booting NetBSD using the loadbsd program
152When you want (or have to) start
153.Nx
154from AmigaOS, you have to use the
155.Ic 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 abkpqstvACDSZ
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.Ar kernel-path
166.Ed
167.Pp
168Description of options:
169.Bl -tag -width flag
170.It Fl a
171Autoboot into multi-user mode.
172.It Fl b
173Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump
174device, and the path to
175.Xr init 8 .
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 q
192Boot in quiet mode.
193.It Fl s
194Boot into single-user mode.
195.It Fl t
196Test loading of the kernel but don't start
197.Nx .
198.It Fl v
199Boot in verbose mode.
200.It Fl A
201enable AGA display modes.
202.It Fl C
203Use the serial port as console
204.It Fl D
205Enter the kernel debugger (best used with
206.Fl S ) .
207.It Fl I Ar mask
208inhibit sync negotiation as follows: The
209.Ar mask
210is a bitmap expressed in hexadecimal (e.g., ff)
211with 4*8bits, each bit, if set to 1, disabling sync negotiation for
212the corresponding target.
213Note that this only applies to (some of the)
214real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE.
215The bytes are used up
216from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
217.It Fl S
218include kernel debug symbols (for use by
219.Fl D ) .
220.It Fl Z
221Force load via chip memory.
222Won't work if kernel is larger than the chip memory size or on the
223DraCo.
224.El
225.Pp
226Note: Because the loadbsd program can only read kernels from a AmigaOS
227filesystem, the file
228.Ar /netbsd
229is often not the same as the actual kernel booted.
230This can cause some programs to fail.
231However, note that you can use third-party Berkeley
232filesystems such as bffs to access the
233.Nx
234root partition from AmigaOS.
235.Sh FILES
236.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs -compact
237.It Pa /netbsd
238system kernel
239.It Pa /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs
240RDB device primary boot block
241.It Pa /usr/mdec/bootxx_fd
242floppy disk primary boot block
243.It Pa /usr/mdec/boot.amiga
244secondary bootstrap
245.It Pa /boot.amiga
246secondary bootstrap (installed)
247.El
248.Sh SEE ALSO
249.Xr ddb 4 ,
250.Xr amiga/installboot 8 ,
251.Xr fsck_ffs 8 ,
252.Xr newfs 8 ,
253.Xr savecore 8 ,
254.Xr shutdown 8
255.Sh BUGS
256Due to code size restrictions, you can't currently use an old-style file
257system (created with
258.Xr newfs 8
259-O
260or with
261.Nx 0.9 )
262with the boot block.
263You can use
264.Ic loadbsd
265to boot from AmigaOS, or upgrade the file system with
266.Ar fsck_ffs -c 2 .
267