NAME
boot
-
system bootstrapping procedures
DESCRIPTION
Power fail and crash recovery
When the
NetBSD
kernel is booted normally (using one of the two methods discussed below),
it initializes itself and proceeds to boot the system. An automatic
consistency check of the file systems takes place, and unless this
fails, the system comes up to multi-user operations. The proper way
to shut the system down is with the
shutdown(8)
command.
If the system crashes, it will enter the kernel debugger,
ddb(4),
if it is configured in the kernel. If the debugger is not present,
or the debugger is exited, the system will attempt a dump to the
configured dump device (which will be automatically recovered with
savecore(8)
during the next boot cycle). After the dump is complete (successful
or not), the system will attempt a reboot.
Booting NetBSD using the bootloader
When a bootable
NetBSD
partition is created by means of HDTOOLBOX or another RDB editing program
and a bootblock has been copied there by
installboot(8)
and the boot priority of the
NetBSD
partition is either the highest or the
NetBSD
partition is selected by means of the boot menu,
the Amiga ROM will automatically start the
NetBSD
bootloader. By default it will, after a short timeout, load the kernel image
/netbsd
and attempt to boot it into multi-user mode. This behaviour can be changed by
typing in an alternate command sequence. The command line looks like:
-
kernel-path
[-abknpqstvADZ]
[-c model]
[-m memsize]
[-n memsegments]
[-I mask]
[-S amount]
[-T amount]
- kernel-path
-
This gives you the opportunity to boot another kernel, say:
/netbsd.old
.
The default is
/netbsd
.
- -a
-
Autoboot into multi-user mode (default).
- -b
-
Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump
device, and the path to
init(8).
- -c model
-
force machine
model.
Use 32000+(Qlogic chip revision) for the DraCo.
- -k
-
Reserve the first 4M of fastmem.
- -m memsize
-
Force fastmem size to be
memsize
kBytes.
- -n
-
maximum number of
segments
of memory to use, encoded as follows: 0 (default): 1 segment, 1:
2 segments, 2: 3 or more segments.
- -p
-
Select kernel load segment by priority instead of size.
- -q
-
Boot in quiet mode.
- -s
-
Boot into single-user mode.
- -v
-
Boot in verbose mode.
- -D
-
Enter the kernel debugger (best used with -S)
- -I mask
-
inhibit sync negotiation as follows: The
mask
is a bitmap expressed in C notation (e.g., 0xff)
with 4*8bits, each bit, if set to 1, disabling sync negotiation for
the corresponding target. Note that this only applies to (some of the)
real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE. The bytes are used up
from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
- -S
-
Load the kernel symbols
Booting NetBSD using the loadbsd program
When you want (or have to) start
NetBSD
from AmigaOS, you have to use the
loadbsd
program that is supplied in the utils directory of the distribution.
The loadbsd command line specification is:
-
loadbsd
[-abknpstADZ]
[-c model]
[-m memsize]
[-n memsegments]
[-I mask]
[-S amount]
[-T amount]
kernel-path
Description of options:
- -a
-
Autoboot into multi-user mode.
- -b
-
Prompt for the root file system device, the system crash dump
device, and the path to
init(8).
- -c
-
force machine model.
- -k
-
Reserve the first 4M of fastmem.
- -m
-
Force fastmem size to be
memsize
kBytes.
- -n
-
maximum number of
segments
of memory to use, encoded as follows: 0 (default): 1 segment, 1:
2 segments, 2: 3 or more segments.
- -p
-
Select kernel load segment by priority instead of size.
- -s
-
Boot into single-user mode.
- -t
-
Test loading of the kernel but don't start
NetBSD.
- -A
-
enable AGA modes.
- -D
-
Enter the kernel debugger after booting. Best with -S.
- -I mask
-
inhibit sync negotiation as follows: The
mask
is a bitmap expressed in hexadecimal (e.g., ff)
with 4*8bits, each bit, if set to 1, disabling sync negotiation for
the corresponding target. Note that this only applies to (some of the)
real SCSI busses, but not, e.g., to internal IDE. The bytes are used up
from right to left by SCSI bus drivers using this convention.
- -S
-
include kernel debug symbols (for use by -D).
- -Z
-
Force load via chip memory. Won't work if kernel is larger than the chip
memory size or on the DraCo.
Note: Because the loadbsd program can only read kernels from a AmigaOS
filesystem, the file
/netbsd
is often not the same as the actual kernel booted. This can cause some
programs to fail. However, note that you can use third-party Berkeley
filesystems such as bffs to access the
NetBSD
root partition from AmigaOS.
FILES
/netbsd
-
system kernel
/usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs
-
RDB device primary boot block
/usr/mdec/bootxx_fd
-
floppy disk primary boot block
/usr/mdec/boot.amiga
-
secondary bootstrap
/boot.amiga
-
secondary bootstrap (installed)
SEE ALSO
ddb(4),
fsck_ffs(8),
installboot(8),
newfs(8),
savecore(8),
shutdown(8)
BUGS
Due to code size restrictions, you can't currently use an old-style file
system (created with
newfs(8)
-O
or with
NetBSD0.9)
with the boot block. You can use
loadbsd
to boot from AmigaOS, or upgrade the file system with
fsck_ffs -c 2.