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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sparc64/boot.8 3.html b/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sparc64/boot.8 3.html deleted file mode 100644 index 678b466a..00000000 --- a/static/netbsd/man8/man8.sparc64/boot.8 3.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,205 +0,0 @@ -<table class="head"> - <tr> - <td class="head-ltitle">BOOT(8)</td> - <td class="head-vol">System Manager's Manual (sparc64)</td> - <td class="head-rtitle">BOOT(8)</td> - </tr> -</table> -<div class="manual-text"> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="NAME"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME">NAME</a></h1> -<p class="Pp"><code class="Nm">boot</code>, <code class="Nm">ofwboot</code> - — <span class="Nd">system bootstrapping procedures</span></p> -</section> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="SYNOPSIS"><a class="permalink" href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></h1> -<table class="Nm"> - <tr> - <td><code class="Nm">boot</code></td> - <td>[<code class="Fl">-adqsv</code>] [<var class="Ar">--</var> - ⟨<var class="Ar">boot string</var>⟩]</td> - </tr> -</table> -</section> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="permalink" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h1> -<p class="Pp">Sun UltraSPARC systems support booting from locally attached - storage media (e.g. hard disk, CD-ROM), and booting over Ethernet networks - using BOOTP.</p> -<section class="Ss"> -<h2 class="Ss" id="Power_fail_and_crash_recovery"><a class="permalink" href="#Power_fail_and_crash_recovery">Power - fail and crash recovery</a></h2> -<p class="Pp">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 <a class="Xr">fsck(8)</a>, and unless this fails, - the system will resume multi-user operations.</p> -</section> -<section class="Ss"> -<h2 class="Ss" id="Cold_starts"><a class="permalink" href="#Cold_starts">Cold - starts</a></h2> -<p class="Pp">The Sun Open Firmware performs a Power On Self Test (POST), and - then will boot an operating system according to configuration in Open - Firmware environment variables.</p> -</section> -<section class="Ss"> -<h2 class="Ss" id="Boot_program_options"><a class="permalink" href="#Boot_program_options">Boot - program options</a></h2> -<dl class="Bl-tag"> - <dt id="a"><a class="permalink" href="#a"><code class="Fl">-a</code></a></dt> - <dd>Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump device, and - the path to <a class="Xr">init(8)</a>.</dd> - <dt id="d"><a class="permalink" href="#d"><code class="Fl">-d</code></a></dt> - <dd>Bring the system up in debug mode. Here it waits for a kernel debugger - connect; see <a class="Xr">gdb(1)</a>.</dd> - <dt id="q"><a class="permalink" href="#q"><code class="Fl">-q</code></a></dt> - <dd>Boot the system in quiet mode.</dd> - <dt id="s"><a class="permalink" href="#s"><code class="Fl">-s</code></a></dt> - <dd>Bring the system up in single-user mode.</dd> - <dt id="v"><a class="permalink" href="#v"><code class="Fl">-v</code></a></dt> - <dd>Boot the system in verbose mode.</dd> -</dl> -<p class="Pp">Any extra flags or arguments, or the ⟨<var class="Ar">boot - string</var>⟩ after the -- separator are passed to the boot PROM. - Other flags are currently ignored.</p> -<p class="Pp">At any time you can halt the running system and get back to the - Open Firmware. If the console is the Sun framebuffer and keyboard, press the - ‘STOP’ and ‘A’ keys at the same time on the - keyboard. On older models of Sun keyboards, the ‘STOP’ key is - labeled ‘L1’.</p> -<p class="Pp">If the console is a serial port the same is achieved by sending a - ‘BREAK’.</p> -<p class="Pp">If you do this accidentally, you can continue whatever was in - progress with the <code class="Ic">go</code> command.</p> -</section> -</section> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="BOOT_DEVICES"><a class="permalink" href="#BOOT_DEVICES">BOOT - DEVICES</a></h1> -<p class="Pp">Since machines vary greatly in the way their devices are - connected, there are aliases defined by the firmware. You can either use the - fully qualified Open Firmware path of a device node, or the alias.</p> -<p class="Pp">The secondary boot loader, <code class="Nm">ofwboot</code>, takes - <code class="Nm">boot</code> commands virtually the same as Open Firmware. - Thus, the following examples apply equally to - <code class="Nm">ofwboot</code> as well as Open Firmware.</p> -<p class="Pp">A typical list of usable boot devices (extracted from the output - of the Open Firmware command <code class="Ic">devalias</code>) is:</p> -<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li"> -<pre>net /sbus/SUNW,hme@e,8c00000 -disk /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0 -cdrom /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@6,0:f -disk6 /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@6,0 -disk5 /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@5,0 -disk4 /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@4,0 -disk3 /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@3,0 -disk2 /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@2,0 -disk1 /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@1,0 -disk0 /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0</pre> -</div> -<p class="Pp" id="cdrom">If a device specification includes a partition letter - (for example <a class="permalink" href="#cdrom"><i class="Em">cdrom</i></a> - in above list), that partition is used by default, otherwise the first (a) - partition is used. If booting from the net device, there is no partition - involved.</p> -<p class="Pp">The boot device is an optional first part of the boot string, if - no device is specified the default device is used (see below).</p> -</section> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="FIRMWARE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES"><a class="permalink" href="#FIRMWARE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES">FIRMWARE - ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</a></h1> -<p class="Pp">All Open Firmware environment variables can be printed with the - <code class="Ic">printenv</code> command and changed with the - <code class="Ic">setenv</code> command. The boot process relevant variables - and their suggested value for booting <span class="Ux">NetBSD</span> - are:</p> -<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li"> -<pre>boot-command boot -auto-boot? true -boot-file -boot-device disk -diag-switch? false</pre> -</div> -<p class="Pp" id="disk">Of course you may select any other boot device, if you - do not want to boot from the device aliased to - <a class="permalink" href="#disk"><i class="Em">disk</i></a>, see the - discussion on devices above.</p> -</section> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="FILES"><a class="permalink" href="#FILES">FILES</a></h1> -<dl class="Bl-tag Bl-compact"> - <dt><span class="Pa">/netbsd</span></dt> - <dd>system code</dd> - <dt><span class="Pa">/ofwboot</span></dt> - <dd>system bootstrap</dd> - <dt><span class="Pa">/usr/mdec/ofwboot.net</span></dt> - <dd>alternate bootstrap when booting from the network, see - <a class="Xr">diskless(8)</a> for details.</dd> -</dl> -</section> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="EXAMPLES"><a class="permalink" href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a></h1> -<p class="Pp">Boot from CD-ROM:</p> -<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li"> -<pre>boot cdrom</pre> -</div> -<p class="Pp">Note that some multi-architecture CDs are not able to use the - default sparc64 partition for CD-ROMs (f), so they may require an explicit - partition letter, for example</p> -<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li"> -<pre>boot cdrom:c</pre> -</div> -<p class="Pp">When using external SCSI CD-ROM drives it is important to know two - things: the Sun firmware expects the SCSI ID to be six, and the drive must - support 512-byte block reads, in addition to the standard 2048-byte - reads.</p> -<p class="Pp">Use</p> -<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li"> -<pre>boot net -sd</pre> -</div> -<p class="Pp">to boot single user from network and break into the kernel - debugger as soon as possible.</p> -<p class="Pp">Use</p> -<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li"> -<pre>boot net tftp:netbsd -a</pre> -</div> -<p class="Pp">to boot a kernel named netbsd obtained via tftp and have it ask - for root file system, swap partition and init location once it is up.</p> -<p class="Pp">During installation from a different operating system</p> -<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li"> -<pre>boot disk:b</pre> -</div> -<p class="Pp">is used to boot a “miniroot” file system from the - swap partition.</p> -</section> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="SEE_ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE - ALSO</a></h1> -<p class="Pp"><a class="Xr">disklabel(8)</a>, <a class="Xr">diskless(8)</a>, - <a class="Xr">fsck(8)</a>, <a class="Xr">halt(8)</a>, - <a class="Xr">init(8)</a>, <a class="Xr">installboot(8)</a>, - <a class="Xr">rc(8)</a>, <a class="Xr">shutdown(8)</a>, - <a class="Xr">sparc/boot(8)</a>, <a class="Xr">syslogd(8)</a></p> -</section> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="STANDARDS"><a class="permalink" href="#STANDARDS">STANDARDS</a></h1> -<p class="Pp">Sun developed its firmware and promoted it to become - <span class="St">IEEE Std 1275-1994 (“Open - Firmware”)</span>.</p> -<p class="Pp"><a class="Lk" href="http://www.openfirmware.org/1275/">IEEE 1275 - Open Firmware</a></p> -</section> -<section class="Sh"> -<h1 class="Sh" id="BUGS"><a class="permalink" href="#BUGS">BUGS</a></h1> -<p class="Pp"><span class="Ux">NetBSD</span> provides no way to boot UltraSPARC - systems from floppy disks. This is unlikely to change, due to very low - demand for this feature.</p> -<p class="Pp">The OBP on Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 machines can only boot from the - first 4Gb of the disk.</p> -</section> -</div> -<table class="foot"> - <tr> - <td class="foot-date">November 9, 2008</td> - <td class="foot-os">NetBSD 10.1</td> - </tr> -</table> |