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+.\" $OpenBSD: bootparams.5,v 1.13 2022/03/31 17:27:31 naddy Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Gordon W. Ross
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+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 31 2022 $
+.Dt BOOTPARAMS 5
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm bootparams
+.Nd boot parameter database
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm bootparams
+file specifies the boot parameters that
+.Xr diskless 8
+clients may request when booting over the network.
+Each client supported by this server must have an entry in the
+.Nm bootparams
+file containing the pathnames for its "root" and (optionally) "swap" areas.
+.Pp
+Each line in the file
+(other than comment lines that begin with a
+.Sq # )
+specifies the client name followed by the pathnames that
+the client may request by their logical names.
+The components of the line are delimited with blank or tab,
+and may be continued onto multiple lines with a backslash.
+.Pp
+For example:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+client root=server:/export/client/root \e
+ swap=server:/export/client/swap \e
+ dump=server:/export/client/swap
+.Ed
+.Pp
+When the client named "client" requests the pathname for
+its logical "root", it will be given the server name "server"
+and the pathname
+.Pa /export/client/root
+as the response to its
+.Tn RPC
+request.
+.Pp
+A line containing simply
+.Sq +
+will cause YP lookups to be done on the YP map "bootparams".
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /etc/bootparams -compact
+.It Pa /etc/bootparams
+default configuration file
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr diskless 8 ,
+.Xr rpc.bootparamd 8 ,
+.Xr yp 8