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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sgimips/Makefile b/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sgimips/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5b657add --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sgimips/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +MAN = $(wildcard *.8) + +include ../../../mandoc.mk + diff --git a/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sgimips/boot.8 b/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sgimips/boot.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..71c687d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sgimips/boot.8 @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.7 2017/02/17 22:30:28 christos Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Stephen M. Rumble +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" 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. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products +.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``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 AUTHOR 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 sgimips +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm boot +.Nd sgimips system bootstrapping procedures +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Tn Silicon Graphics +MIPS-based computers all feature essentially similar firmware systems. +However, as of the Indigo R4x00 series (IP20), quasi- +.Tn ARCS +(Advanced RISC Computing Specification) compatible features are also present. +All known PROM implementations support loading executables from disk +devices, as well as from the network via BOOTP and TFTP. +.Sh Disk Booting +.Tn SGI +provides a small filesystem at the beginning of each bootable disk called +a Volume Header, which contains a boot loader and other standalone utilities. +Booting +.Nx +requires that we write our bootloader into to the volume header using +.Xr sgimips/sgivol 8 . +.Pp +Once a bootloader is present in the volume header, it may be executed +directly by the PROM either manually, or at boot time using the +.Dq OSLoader +PROM environment variable. +The +.Nx +bootloader will obtain the kernel filename to boot from the PROM or EEPROM. +This is specified by setting the PROM environment variable +.Dq OSLoadFilename +to an appropriate value. +For instance, +.Dq /netbsd.ecoff . +.Pp +For example, the following will configure the PROM to use the bootloader +.Dq aoutboot +to load the kernel +.Dq netbsd.old +.Pp +.Dl Ic setenv OSLoader aoutboot +.Dl Ic setenv OSLoadFilename netbsd.old +.Sh Network Booting +The system firmware will obtain an IP address, TFTP server address, and an +optional filename from the BOOTP server and download it via TFTP. +The PROM's configurable network address environment variable +.Dq netaddr +must match the address provided by the BOOTP server. +.Pp +An example BOOTP entry for +.Xr dhcpd 8 +follows: +.Pp +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent + host indigo3k { + hardware ethernet 08:00:69:42:42:42; + fixed-address 192.168.0.2; + option host-name "indigo3k.foo"; + #filename "/netbsd.ecoff"; + next-server 192.168.0.1; + option root-path "/export/indigo3k/root"; + server-name "192.168.0.1"; + } +.Ed +.Pp +To boot a kernel named +.Dq netbsd.ecoff +the user would type: +.Dl Ic boot -f bootp():/netbsd.ecoff +.Pp +See +.Xr dhcpd.conf 5 +for more information on configuring +.Xr dhcpd 8 +as a BOOTP server. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr dhcpd.conf 5 , +.Xr dhcpd 8 , +.Xr sgimips/sgivol 8 +.Sh CAVEATS +Some older PROM revisions do not support loading of ELF images. +The build system automatically prepares ECOFF versions, which are +correctly interpreted. +.Sh BUGS +.Nx +does not support booting from disk on systems lacking an ARCS-compatible +firmware (presently supported systems include Personal Iris and Indigo R3000). +It is possible to work around this by creating a sufficiently large volume +header and placing the kernel in it, or by network booting. +.Pp +Some firmware revisions have a bug, which precludes them from communicating +with TFTP servers using ports above 32767. +When using +.Nx +as the TFTP server, this problem may be worked around as follows: +.Pp +.Dl Ic sysctl -w net.inet.ip.anonportmin=20000 +.Dl Ic sysctl -w net.inet.ip.anonportmax=32767 +.Pp +Another bug exists in some firmware revisions, which precludes the PROM from +communicating with TFTP servers that employ PMTU (Path MTU) discovery. +This bug may be worked around by disabling PMTU on the TFTP server. +This does not presently affect +.Nx +servers. +.Pp +This man page is horribly incomplete. diff --git a/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sgimips/sgivol.8 b/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sgimips/sgivol.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e2635c70 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sgimips/sgivol.8 @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: sgivol.8,v 1.10 2017/02/17 22:30:28 christos Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Stephen M. Rumble +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" 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. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products +.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``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 AUTHOR 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 SGIVOL 8 sgimips +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm /usr/mdec/sgivol +.Nd configure SGI Volume Header +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl fq +.Ar device +.Nm +.Op Fl fq +.Fl i +.Op Fl h Ar vhsize +.Ar device +.Nm +.Op Fl fq +.Fl r +.Ar vhfilename +.Ar diskfilename +.Ar device +.Nm +.Op Fl fq +.Fl w +.Ar vhfilename +.Ar diskfilename +.Ar device +.Nm +.Op Fl fq +.Fl d +.Ar vhfilename +.Ar device +.Nm +.Op Fl fq +.Fl m +.Ar vhfilename +.Ar vhfilename +.Ar device +.Nm +.Op Fl fq +.Fl p +.Ar partno +.Ar partfirst +.Ar partblocks +.Ar parttype +.Ar device +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +program prepares an SGI Volume Header to be used to boot +.Nx . +The +.Tn SGI +PROM is able to load executables within the header, which in turn are used +to load the kernel from another file system. +.Sh OPTIONS +The following options are available: +.Bl -tag -width 123456 +.It Fl f +Force the operation. +Do not ask the user before proceeding. +.It Fl h +Set the size of the newly initialized volume header in blocks. +One block is 512 bytes. +The default volume header size is 3135 blocks (1.53MB). +.It Fl q +Suppress output. +.El +.Sh PARTITION TYPES +The numerical partition types for the volume header include: +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent + 0: Volume Header + 1: Replicated Tracks + 2: Replicated Sectors + 3: Raw + 4: BSD4.2 file system + 5: SysV file system + 6: Entire Volume (all disk blocks) + 7: EFS + 8: Logical Volume + 9: Raw Logical Volume + 10: XFS + 11: XFS Log + 12: XLV Volume + 13: XVM Volume +.Ed +.Sh EXAMPLES +To display the existing volume header and partition table on disk +.Dq sd0 : +.Dl Ic sgivol sd0 +.Pp +To initialize a new volume header 42 512-byte blocks large on disk +.Dq sd0 : +.Dl Ic sgivol -i -h 42 sd0 +.Pp +To copy a file +.Pa boot +from the volume header to local file +.Pa /tmp/boot +on disk +.Dq sd0 : +.Dl Ic sgivol -r boot /tmp/boot sd0 +.Pp +To copy a local file +.Pa /usr/mdec/ip2xboot +to the volume header as +.Pa boot +on disk +.Dq sd0 : +.Dl Ic sgivol -w boot /usr/mdec/ip2xboot sd0 +.Pp +To delete the existing file +.Pa boot +from the volume header on disk +.Dq sd0 : +.Dl Ic sgivol -d boot sd0 +.Pp +To move (rename) an existing file +.Pa file1 +to +.Pa file2 +in the volume header on disk +.Dq sd0 : +.Dl Ic sgivol -m file1 file2 sd0 +.Pp +To change partition 0 to type 4 (BSD4.2) beginning at block offset 3200 +and continue for 28000 blocks on disk +.Dq sd0 : +.Dl Ic sgivol -p 0 3200 28000 4 sd0 +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr sgimips/boot 8 |