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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 15:32:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 15:32:58 -0400 |
| commit | 5cb84ec742fd33f78c8022863fadaa8d0d93e176 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a81ca3665e6153923e40db7b0d988f8573ab59c /static/netbsd/man8/man8.prep/boot.8 | |
| parent | a59214f344567c037d5776879bcfc5fcc1d4d5f6 (diff) | |
feat: Added NetBSD man pages
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man8/man8.prep/boot.8 b/static/netbsd/man8/man8.prep/boot.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d5c3d021 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man8/man8.prep/boot.8 @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +.\" $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 +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS +.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED +.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.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 |
