249 lines
8.1 KiB
Groff
249 lines
8.1 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software written and contributed
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.\" to Berkeley by William Jolitz.
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.\"
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.\" Almost completely rewritten for FreeBSD 2.1 by Joerg Wunsch.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)boot_i386.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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.\"
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.\" $Id: boot_i386.8,v 1.10 1998/03/23 06:36:57 danny Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd April 19, 1994
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.Dt BOOT 8 i386
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm boot
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.Nd
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system bootstrapping procedures
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Sy Power fail and crash recovery.
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Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes.
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An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed,
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and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
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.Pp
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.Sy Cold starts.
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Most 386
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.Tn "PC AT"
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clones attempt to boot the floppy disk drive 0 (otherwise known as
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drive A:) first, and failing that, attempt to boot the hard disk
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drive 0 (otherwise known as drive C:,
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or (confusingly) hard disk drive 1, or drive 0x80 in the BIOS).
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Some BIOSes let you change this default sequence or may include a CD-ROM
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drive as a boot device.
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After the boot blocks have been loaded,
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you should see a prompt similar to the following:
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.Bd -literal
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>> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 640/7168 k of memory, internal console
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Boot default: 0:wd(0,a)kernel
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boot:
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.Ed
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.Pp
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(You may see some tips printed on the screen too.)
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.Pp
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The automatic boot will attempt to load
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.Pa /kernel
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from partition
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.Ql a
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of either the floppy or the hard disk.
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This boot may be aborted by typing any character on the keyboard
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at the
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.Ql boot:
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prompt. At this time, the following input will be accepted:
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.Bl -tag -width 10x
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.It \&?
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Give a short listing of the files in the root directory of the default
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boot device, as a hint about available boot files.
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.It Op bios_drive:interface(unit,part) Op filename Op Fl abCcDdghPrsv
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Specify boot file and flags.
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.Bl -tag -width 10x -compact
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.It bios_drive
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The drive number as recognized by the BIOS.
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0 for the first drive, 1 for the second drive, etc.
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.It interface
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The type of controller to boot from. Note that the controller is required
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to have BIOS support since the BIOS services are used to load the
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boot file image.
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.Pp
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The supported interfaces are:
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.Bl -tag -width "wdXX" -compact
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.It wd
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ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL disks on a WD100[2367] or lookalike
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controller
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.It fd
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5 1/4" or 3 1/2" High density floppies
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.It sd
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SCSI disk on any supported SCSI controller
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.\".It cd
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.\"boot from CDROM
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.El
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.It unit
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The unit number of the drive on the interface being used.
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0 for the first drive, 1 for the second drive, etc.
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.It part
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The partition letter inside the BSD portion of the disk. See
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.Xr disklabel 8 .
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By convention, only partition
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.Ql a
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contains a bootable image. If sliced disks are used
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.Pq Dq fdisk partitions ,
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only the first BSD slice can be used to boot from. The partition
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letter always refers to the first slice.
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.It filename
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The pathname of the file to boot (relative to the root directory
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on the specified partition). Defaults to
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.Pa kernel .
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Symbolic links are not supported (hard links are).
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.It Fl abcCdDghPrsv
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Boot flags:
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.Bl -tag -width "-CXX" -compact
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.It Fl a
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during kernel initialization,
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ask for the device to mount as as the root file system.
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.It Fl b
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puts the screen in 800x600x4 mode (Vesa mode 0x102).
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This is useful on laptops whose graphics
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chips are not supported by XFree86 by the XF86_VGA16 server.
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You need to have a 8x16 font compiled into syscons or loaded as
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part of boot-strap if you actually want to see anything on
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the screen.
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.It Fl C
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boot from CDROM.
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.It Fl c
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run UserConfig to modify hardware parameters for the loaded
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kernel. If the kernel was built with the USERCONFIG_BOOT option,
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remain in UserConfig regardless of any
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.Ic quit
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commands present in the script.
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.It Fl D
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toggle single and dual console configurations. In the single
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configuration the console will be either the internal display
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or the serial port, depending on the state of the
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.Fl h
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option below. In the dual console configuration,
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both the internal display and the serial port will become the console
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at the same time, regardless of the state of the
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.Fl h
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option. However, the dual console configuration takes effect only during
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the boot prompt. Once the kernel is loaded, the console specified
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by the
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.Fl h
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option becomes the only console.
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.It Fl d
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enter the DDB kernel debugger
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.Pq see Xr ddb 4
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as early as possible in kernel initialization.
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.It Fl g
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use the GDB remote debugging protocol.
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.It Fl h
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toggle internal and serial consoles. You can use this to switch
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console devices. For instance, if you boot from the internal console,
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you can use the
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.Fl h
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option to force the kernel to use the serial port as its
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console device. Alternatively, if you boot from the serial port,
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you can use this option to force the kernel to use the internal display
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as the console instead.
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.It Fl P
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probe the keyboard. If no keyboard is found, the
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.Fl D
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and
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.Fl h
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options are automatically set.
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.It Fl r
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use the statically configured default for the device containing the
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root file system
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.Pq see Xr config 8 .
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Normally, the root file system is on the device
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that the kernel was loaded from.
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.It Fl s
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boot into single-user mode; if the console is marked as
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.Dq insecure
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.Pq see Xr ttys 5 ,
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the root password must be entered
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.It Fl v
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be verbose during device probing (and later).
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.El
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.El
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.El
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.Pp
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You may put a BIOS drive number, a controller type, a unit number,
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a partition, a kernel file name and the
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.Fl b ,
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.Fl D,
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.Fl h
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or
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.Fl P
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options in
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.Pa /boot.config
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to set defaults. Write them in one line just as you type at the
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.Ql boot:
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prompt.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /kernel.old.config -compact
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.It Pa /boot.config
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parameters for the boot loader (optional)
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.It Pa /boot.help
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help messages
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.It Pa /kernel
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default kernel
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.It Pa /kernel.config
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parameters for default kernel (optional)
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.It Pa /kernel.old
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typical non-default kernel (optional)
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.It Pa /kernel.old.config
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parameters for non-default kernel (optional)
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.\" .It Pa /boot
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.\" system bootstrap
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ddb 4 ,
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.Xr ttys 5 ,
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.Xr config 8 ,
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.Xr disklabel 8 ,
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.Xr halt 8 ,
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.Xr reboot 8 ,
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.Xr shutdown 8
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.Sh BUGS
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The disklabel format used by this version of
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.Bx
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is quite
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different from that of other architectures.
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.Pp
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The kernel's output is invisible (nothing but the cursor can be seen) when
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.Fl b
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is used unless a font has been compiled into the kernel.
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.Pp
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The boot flags are not very self-explanatory, and the alphabet has
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too few characters to implement every potentially useful boot option.
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