ee1cb19f07
Make a link from boot_${ARCH}.8 to boot.8, so people will get what
they expect when asking "man boot".
I think David will lynch me when i'm requesting this to go into 2.1... :-)
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170 lines
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.\" 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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.\" $Id$
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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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controller 1, drive 0 (otherwise known as drive C:, or drive 0x80 in
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the BIOS). 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 -offset indent -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 ctrlr(unit,part) Op /filename Op Fl abcCdhrsv
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Specify boot file and flags.
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.Bl -tag -offset indent -width 10x -compact
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.It ctrlr
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The 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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Common controller names are:
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.Bl -tag -offset indent -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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.It hd
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Pseudo-controller, must be used to specify that unit number
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1 (known to the BIOS as drive 0x81) is on a different controller
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than unit number 0. This can happen for the wd vs. sd case.
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.El
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.It unit
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The unit number of the drive on the controller being used. Either 0
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or 1 for the wd and fd and most sd controllers, between 0 and 6 for
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some newer sd controllers.
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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 does always refer to this slice then.
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.It /filename
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The pathname of the file to boot; must be inside the root directory
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of 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 abcCdhrsv
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Boot flags:
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.Bl -tag -offset indent -width "-CXX" -compact
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.It Fl a
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ask for the device to install as root file system during kernel
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initialisation
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.It Fl b
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do not automatically reboot after shutdown or crash
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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
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.It Fl C
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boot from CDROM
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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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before configuring any device (except the system's console)
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.It Fl h
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toggle serial/graphics console
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.It Fl r
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do not establish the root directory of the file system
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hierarchy on the device where the boot file is being loaded
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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
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.El
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.El
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /kernelxx -compact
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.It Pa /kernel
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system code
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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 halt 8 ,
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.Xr reboot 8 ,
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.Xr shutdown 8 ,
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.Xr disklabel 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 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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