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+.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.4 2017/02/17 22:30:28 christos Exp $
+.\" Copyright (c) 2006 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
+.\" by Tim Rightnour
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+.Dd February 17, 2017
+.Dt BOOT 8 prep
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm boot
+.Nd system bootstrapping procedures
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm boot
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Ss Power fail and crash recovery
+Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes.
+An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed
+as described in
+.Xr fsck 8 ,
+and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
+.Ss Cold starts
+The prep architecture does not allow the direct booting of a kernel
+from the hard drive.
+Instead it requires a complete boot image to be loaded.
+This boot image contains a
+.Nx
+kernel, which will then provide access to the devices on the machine.
+The image can be placed on any device that the firmware considers
+a bootable device.
+Usually this is either a SCSI disk, tape, CD-ROM, or floppy drive.
+.Ss Boot program options
+The prep architecture and bootloader does not support any option
+parsing at the boot prompt.
+.Ss Boot partition
+The prep port requires a special boot partition on the primary boot
+device in order to load the kernel.
+This partition consists of a PC-style i386 partition label, a small
+bootloader, and a kernel image.
+The prep firmware looks for a partition of type 0x41 (65) and
+expects the bootloader, immediately followed by the kernel, to be
+there.
+The
+.Xr prep/mkbootimage 8
+command needs to be used to generate this image.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/boot_com0xx -compact
+.It Pa /netbsd
+system code
+.It Pa /usr/mdec/boot
+system bootstrap
+.It Pa /usr/mdec/boot_com0
+system bootstrap with serial console
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr disklabel 8 ,
+.Xr fsck 8 ,
+.Xr halt 8 ,
+.Xr init 8 ,
+.Xr installboot 8 ,
+.Xr prep/mkbootimage 8 ,
+.Xr rc 8 ,
+.Xr shutdown 8 ,
+.Xr syslogd 8