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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man8/installboot.8 b/static/openbsd/man8/installboot.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a16593d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man8/installboot.8 @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: installboot.8,v 1.11 2010/03/06 16:16:42 jmc Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.2 1997/04/06 08:41:11 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Christopher G. Demetriou. All rights reserved. +.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Paul Kranenburg +.\" 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. 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. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by Paul Kranenburg. +.\" 3. 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 $Mdocdate: March 6 2010 $ +.Dt INSTALLBOOT 8 alpha +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm installboot +.Nd install disk bootstrap software +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm installboot +.Op Fl nv +.Ar boot +.Ar bootxx +.Ar rawdiskdevice +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm installboot +utility prepares a disk for bootstrapping. +.Pp +The OpenBSD/alpha disk bootstrap software is split into two parts: +a small first-stage boot program that is written into the disklabel +area of a disk +.Po +and hence is limited in size to 7680 bytes +.Pc , +and a second-stage boot program that resides in the filesystem proper +.Po +typically with the name +.Pa /boot +.Pc . +The first-stage boot program is loaded into memory by the SRM console +software. +After receiving control of the system, it loads the second-stage boot +program from a set of filesystem block numbers that have been +hard-coded into it by +.Nm installboot . +The second-stage boot program locates and loads the kernel. +.Pp +The second-stage boot program and the prototype code for the +first-stage boot program can be found in +.Pa /usr/mdec/boot +and +.Pa /usr/mdec/bootxx , +respectively. +.Pa /usr/mdec/boot +may be installed simply by copying it to the root directory of the +partition you wish to boot from, but after it is installed +.Nm installboot +.Em must +be run. +.Pp +The options recognized by +.Nm installboot +are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width flag +.It Fl n +Do not actually write anything on the disk. +.It Fl v +Verbose mode. +.El +.Pp +The arguments are: +.Bl -tag -width rawdiskdevice +.It Ar boot +The name of the second-stage boot program in the file system +where the first-stage boot program is to be installed. +.It Ar bootxx +The name of the prototype file for the first-stage boot program. +.It Ar rawdiskdevice +The name of the device corresponding to the raw whole-disk partition (the +.Dq raw partition ) +of the disk on which the first-stage boot program is to be installed. +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +.Pa boot +resides in the FFS file system mounted on +.Pa / +from +.Dq sd0a , +you would install the first-stage boot program on the disk +(and therefore make the disk bootable) by using the command: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# cp /usr/mdec/boot /boot +# /usr/mdec/installboot -n -v /boot /usr/mdec/bootxx /dev/rsd0c +.Ed +.Pp +And if the information supplied looks right, run the above without the +.Fl n +flag. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr disklabel 8 , +.Xr init 8 , +.Xr sysctl 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The alpha +.Nm +command first appeared in +.Nx 1.2 . +.Sh BUGS +The OpenBSD/alpha boot blocks can only load kernels from disks' +.Dq a +partitions. +(However, the second-stage boot program may be located on any FFS file system +partition on the disk.) |
