BOOT(8)

NAME
boot - system bootstrapping procedures

DESCRIPTION
Power fail and crash recovery Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes. An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed, and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.

Cold starts On an Artesyn PMPPC card, the boot procedure uses the boot monitor to load a kernel over the network using BOOTP and TFTP. The file systems are mounted via NFS, as described in diskless(8).

Boot monitor settings There are a few of settings in the boot monitor that must be adjusted to boot a kernel. The settings are modified with the nvdisplay command, followed by a nvupdate to save the new settings.

The monitor settings should point to a TFTP server which has the binary kernel image, netbsd.bin, which is built when a kernel is compiled. Furthermore, the monitor should be set up to not initialize PCI devices.

SEE ALSO
halt(8), init(8), rc(8), reboot(8), shutdown(8)