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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-26 16:38:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-26 16:38:00 -0400 |
| commit | 97d5c458cfa039d857301e1ca7d5af3beb37131d (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/unix-v10/man8/reboot.8 b/static/unix-v10/man8/reboot.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..50e1c453 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/unix-v10/man8/reboot.8 @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +.TH REBOOT 8 +.CT 1 sa_auto +.SH NAME +reboot \- bootstrapping procedures +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +Here are some recipes for booting and crashing the operating system +on VAXes. +.SS Rebooting a running system +The preferred way to reboot is to log in on the console as super-user, +invoke +.B kill 1 +to take the system to single user, +unmount file systems with +.B /etc/umount -a +and halt and restart the system +as described below under `Console boots.' +.SS Power fail and crash recovery +The system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes if +auto-boot is enabled on the machine front panel +or in the console software. +If auto-restart is enabled, +the system will first attempt to save a copy of physical memory +on a reserved piece of disk. +An automatic consistency check of the file systems is performed. +Unless this fails the system will resume multi-user operations. +.SS Console boots +Sync the disks if necessary and possible. +To recover hardware control of the console, type a +.RB control- P . +This will yield a +.L >>> +prompt from the VAX +console subsystem (sic). +The command +.IP +.B >>> H +.LP +will halt the CPU +(except on the 11/750, +where +.RB control- P +halts the CPU right away). +.PP +On MicroVAXes, +.RB control- P +doesn't work; +hit the +.SM BREAK +key instead. +.PP +To boot multi-user with an automatic file system check, +give the console command +.IP +.B >>> B +.LP +Commands to boot single-user vary. +On the VAX-11/750 and on MicroVAXes, +use +.IP +.B >>> B/3 +.LP +On the VAX-11/780 and VAX 8550 and 8700, +use +.IP +.B >>> B MAN +.LP +This will prompt with +.LR * +for the name of the file to boot. +The filename should be an executable image +in the root directory +of the filesystem at the beginning of the disk. +.SS System core images +If the system crashes +and auto-restart is enabled, +a copy of physical memory is written +to a reserved piece of disk. +To save a core image of a hung system, type on the console (after +.RB control- P +if necessary): +.IP +.EX +>>> S 80000010 +.EE +.PP +The system will write the core image, +then reboot automatically. +.PP +If the core image was written on +.LR /dev/ra11 , +the following incantation will print a stack traceback +from the time of the crash: +.IP +.EX +adb /unix /dev/ra11 +$<crash +$c +.EE +.PP +To save disk space, +the core image is sometimes overlaid on part of the swap area, +where normal system operation will soon overwrite it. +.IR Savecore (8) +will copy the core image +to an ordinary disk file. +.SH FILES +.TP +.F /unix +default system binary +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR fsck (8), +.IR init (8), +.IR rc (8), +.IR savecore (8) +.SH BUGS +Older boot programs with different syntax are still around in a few places, +especially on machines with Emulex UNIBUS disk controllers, +for which silly boot ROMs are common. +.PP +There are commands +.B /etc/reboot +and +.B /etc/halt +which attempt to reboot and halt the system; +their function is indeterminate +and likely to change. |
