NAME
boot
- system bootstrapping procedures
DESCRIPTION
Power fail and crash recovery
Unfortunately, on most machines, the system can't reboot itself
at power-up or after crashes.
You might have to restart the system manually.
Once the system starts, an automatic consistency check of the file systems
will be performed,
and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
Cold starts
Typical MIPS based Windows CE Handheld machines
attempt to boot Windows CE operating system in its own boot ROM.
You can't boot the
NetBSD
directly skipping Windows CE.
The
NetBSD
bootloaders are provided as application programs on Windows CE instead.
You can choose
pbsdboot(8)
or
hpcboot(8).
Though the bootloaders are application programs,
they blow away the entire Windows CE OS and its settings
when the kernel boots successfully.
Normal Operation
Once running, a familiar window will appear.
You can choose the machine type, kernel file location and kernel boot
options with a GUI and push the button named
``
[boot]
''
to boot
NetBSD.
Automatic mode
The bootloaders have an
``
auto
boot
''
option.
If you enable this option, the specified kernel will be loaded
automatically after a countdown.
FILES
/netbsd
-
system kernel
/netbsd.gz
-
gzip-compressed kernel
pbsdboot1.exe
-
bootloader executable file for Windows CE version 1.01
pbsdboot.exe
-
bootloader executable file for Windows CE
hpcboot.exe
-
new bootloader executable file for Windows CE
SEE ALSO
kloader(4),
hpcboot(8),
pbsdboot(8)
BUGS
There is no general way to launch a bootloader automatically
while a few Windows CE machine provide an
``auto run''
mechanism.