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30.\"	@(#)boot_i386.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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32.Dd August 16, 2014
33.Dt BOOT 8 x68k
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm boot
37.Nd system bootstrapping procedures
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39.Ss Power fail and crash recovery
40Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes.
41An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed,
42and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
43.Ss Cold starts
44The X68000/X68030 system boots from the device
45which is determined by the configuration of
46battery-backuped SRAM.
47By default, the boot ROM attempts to boot from
48floppy disk drives (from 0 to 3) first,
49and then attempts to boot from hard disk (SASI or SCSI).
50On the
51.Nx Ns Tn /x68k ,
52booting from SCSI disks (sd??)
53and 2HD floppy disks (fd?a, fd?c) is currently supported.
54.Ss Bootstrapping from a floppy
55When the floppy disk is selected as the boot device, the initial
56program loader of the IOCS (firmware) reads the
57.Pa fdboot_ufs
58program at the top of the disk, and then the fdboot_ufs program loads the
59.Pa /boot
60program from the FFS or LFS file system.
61Normally, the
62.Pa /boot
63program then loads the
64.Nx
65kernel
66.Pa /netbsd
67from the same floppy.
68In addition, the
69.Pa /boot
70program has abilities to uncompress gzip'ed kernels, to read
71the kernel from other disks of other file systems etc (see below).
72.Pp
73For floppy disks,
74.Pa fdboot_ustar
75is also provided to read large
76kernels which do not fit one a single floppy.
77.Ss Bootstrapping from a SCSI hard disk
78When a SCSI hard disk is selected as the boot device, the initial
79program loader on the SCSI host adapter's ROM reads the
80operating system-independent IPL menu program at the top of the disk.
81The IPL menu program recognizes the partition table, and selects the partition
82to read the operating system kernel.
83During this phase, when the HELP key on the keyboard is pressed,
84the IPL menu program displays the partition menu of that disk to
85prompt the user to select the boot partition (although the
86.Nx
87implementation of the IPL menu,
88.Pa /usr/mdec/mboot ,
89does not have this functionality).
90.Pp
91Next, the IPL menu reads the OS-dependent boot program from the
92top of the selected partition.
93For
94.Nx
95FFS/LFS file systems
96.Pa sdboot_ufs
97is used.
98The
99.Pa sdboot_ufs
100program then loads the
101.Pa /boot
102program from that partition.
103.Ss Normal Operation
104Once running, a banner similar to the following will appear:
105.Bd -literal -offset indent
106NetBSD Multi-boot, Revision 1.1
107(user@buildhost, builddate)
108Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
109booting sd0a:netbsd - starting in 5
110.Ed
111.Pp
112After a countdown, the system image listed will be loaded.
113(In the example above, it will be
114.Dq Li sd0a:netbsd
115which is the file
116.Nm netbsd
117on partition
118.Dq a
119of the
120.Nx
121SCSI hard disk of ID 0.
122Pressing a key within the time limit will enter interactive mode.
123.Ss Interactive mode
124In interactive mode, the boot loader will present a prompt, allowing
125input of these commands:
126.Bl -tag -width helpx -offset indent
127.It Ic boot Oo Ar device : Oc Ns Oo Ar filename Oc Oo Fl adqsv Oc
128The default
129.Ar device
130will be set to the disk that the boot loader was
131loaded from.
132To boot from an alternate disk, the full name of the device should
133be given at the prompt.
134.Ar device
135is of the form
136.Xo
137.Ar xd Ns Oo
138.Ar N Ns Oo
139.Ar x
140.Oc
141.Oc
142.Xc
143where
144.Ar xd
145is the device from which to boot,
146.Ar N
147is the unit number, and
148.Ar x
149is the partition letter.
150.Pp
151The following list of supported devices may vary from installation to
152installation:
153.Pp
154.Bl -hang -compact
155.It sd
156SCSI disks on a controller recognized by the IOCS.
157The unit number is the SCSI ID.
158.It fd
159Floppy drives as numbered by the IOCS.
160.El
161.Pp
162The default
163.Ar filename
164is
165.Pa netbsd ;
166if the boot loader fails to successfully
167open that image, it then tries
168.Pa netbsd.gz
169(expected to be a kernel image compressed by
170.Xr gzip 1 ) .
171Alternate system images can be loaded by just specifying the name of the image.
172.Pp
173Options are:
174.Bl -tag -width xxx
175.It Fl a
176Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump
177device, and the path to
178.Xr init 8 .
179.It Fl d
180Bring the system up in debug mode.
181Here it waits for a kernel debugger connect; see
182.Xr ddb 4 .
183.It Fl q
184Boot the system in quiet mode.
185.It Fl s
186Bring the system up in single-user mode.
187.It Fl v
188Boot the system in verbose mode.
189.El
190.It Ic help
191Print an overview about commands and arguments.
192.It Ic ls Op Pa path
193Print a directory listing of
194.Pa path ,
195containing inode number, filename and file type.
196.Pa path
197can contain a device specification.
198.It Ic halt
199Reboot the system.
200.El
201.Ss Model-specific notes
202Note for X68030+MC68030 systems:
203Nothing special to be attended to; you can boot
204.Nx
205just like as
206other operating systems such as Human68k and OS-9.
207.Pp
208Note for X68030/040turbo(68040 accelerator by BEEPs) systems:
209.Nx
210can boot under 040 mode.
211It can also boot under 030 mode if you have MC68030 on the board.
212.Pp
213Note for X68000/Xellent30(68030 accelerator by TSR)+MC68030 systems:
214In order to boot
215.Nx ,
216you must choose 030 mode by using
217.Pa CH30.SYS ,
218which must reside in the battery-backuped SRAM.
219.Pp
220Note for X68000/Jupiter-X(68040/060 accelerator by FTZ-net) systems:
221The system must be in 040/060 processor mode.
222.Sh FILES
223.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/xxboot_ufs -compact
224.It Pa /netbsd
225system code
226.It Pa /netbsd.gz
227gzip-compressed system code
228.It Pa /usr/mdec/xxboot_ufs
229boot block (read by installboot), xx is disktype
230.It Pa /usr/mdec/boot
231source of /boot (can be just copied to the root directory)
232.It Pa /boot
233main part of the boot program
234.El
235.Sh SEE ALSO
236.Xr reboot 2 ,
237.Xr disklabel 8 ,
238.Xr halt 8 ,
239.Xr reboot 8 ,
240.Xr shutdown 8
241.\" installboot(8) must be written
242