| boot_i386.8 (8fae3551ec46402adf7ab034cf9e02bcbc7ca8ee) | boot_i386.8 (b3bfc7199eb51b03496567ea71bff82b75a2209d) |
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| 1.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software written and contributed 5.\" to Berkeley by William Jolitz. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions --- 40 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 49.Pp 50.Sy Cold starts. 51The 386 52.Tn "PC AT" 53clones attempt to boot the floppy disk drive A (otherwise known as drive 540) first, and failing that, attempt to boot the hard disk C (otherwise 55known as hard disk controller 1, drive 0). 56The automatic boot will attempt to load | 1.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software written and contributed 5.\" to Berkeley by William Jolitz. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions --- 40 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 49.Pp 50.Sy Cold starts. 51The 386 52.Tn "PC AT" 53clones attempt to boot the floppy disk drive A (otherwise known as drive 540) first, and failing that, attempt to boot the hard disk C (otherwise 55known as hard disk controller 1, drive 0). 56The automatic boot will attempt to load |
| 57.Pa vmunix | 57.Pa kernel |
| 58from partition A of either the floppy or the hard disk. 59This boot may be aborted by typing any character on the keyboard repeatedly 60(four or five times at least) during the operating system load phase, after 61which the bootstrap will prompt for the file that you wish to load instead. 62.Pp 63One exception to this is the 64.Ql d 65key, which will not abort the load but instead silently force the --- 28 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 94wd ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL disks on a WD100[2367] or lookalike 95 controller 96fd 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" High density floppies 97.Ed 98.Pp 99For example, 100to boot from a file system which starts at cylinder 0 101of unit 0 of an IDE disk, type | 58from partition A of either the floppy or the hard disk. 59This boot may be aborted by typing any character on the keyboard repeatedly 60(four or five times at least) during the operating system load phase, after 61which the bootstrap will prompt for the file that you wish to load instead. 62.Pp 63One exception to this is the 64.Ql d 65key, which will not abort the load but instead silently force the --- 28 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 94wd ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL disks on a WD100[2367] or lookalike 95 controller 96fd 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" High density floppies 97.Ed 98.Pp 99For example, 100to boot from a file system which starts at cylinder 0 101of unit 0 of an IDE disk, type |
| 102.Dq Li wd0a:vmunix | 102.Dq Li wd0a:kernel |
| 103to the boot prompt; | 103to the boot prompt; |
| 104.Dq Li fd0a:vmunix | 104.Dq Li fd0a:kernel |
| 105would specify a 3 1/2" floppy drive 0 . 106.Pp 107In an emergency, the bootstrap methods described in the paper 108.%T "Installing and Operating 4.3 BSD-Reno UNIX on the AT/386" 109can be used 110to boot from a distribution tape. 111.Sh FILES | 105would specify a 3 1/2" floppy drive 0 . 106.Pp 107In an emergency, the bootstrap methods described in the paper 108.%T "Installing and Operating 4.3 BSD-Reno UNIX on the AT/386" 109can be used 110to boot from a distribution tape. 111.Sh FILES |
| 112.Bl -tag -width /vmunixxx -compact 113.It Pa /vmunix | 112.Bl -tag -width /kernelxx -compact 113.It Pa /kernel |
| 114system code 115.It Pa /boot 116system bootstrap 117.El 118.Sh SEE ALSO 119.Xr halt 8 , 120.Xr reboot 8 , 121.Xr shutdown 8 122.Sh BUGS 123The disklabel format used by this version of 124.Bx 125is quite 126different from that of other architectures. | 114system code 115.It Pa /boot 116system bootstrap 117.El 118.Sh SEE ALSO 119.Xr halt 8 , 120.Xr reboot 8 , 121.Xr shutdown 8 122.Sh BUGS 123The disklabel format used by this version of 124.Bx 125is quite 126different from that of other architectures. |