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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)boot_i386.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 36.\" 37.\" $FreeBSD$ 38.\" 39.Dd August 18, 2005 40.Dt BOOT 8 i386 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm boot 44.Nd system bootstrapping procedures 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46.Sy Power fail and crash recovery . 47Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes. 48An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed, 49and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations. 50.Pp 51.Sy Cold starts . 52Most i386 PCs attempt to boot first from floppy disk drive 0 (sometimes 53known as drive A:) and, failing that, from hard disk drive 0 (sometimes 54known as drive C:, or as drive 0x80 to the BIOS). 55Some BIOSes allow 56you to change this default sequence, and may also include a CD-ROM 57drive as a boot device. 58.Pp 59By default, a three-stage bootstrap is employed, and control is 60automatically passed from the boot blocks (bootstrap stages one and 61two) to a separate third-stage bootstrap program, 62.Xr loader 8 . 63This third stage provides more sophisticated control over the booting 64process than it is possible to achieve in the boot blocks, which are 65constrained by occupying limited fixed space on a given disk or slice. 66.Pp 67However, it is possible to dispense with the third stage altogether, 68either by specifying a kernel name in the boot block parameter 69file, 70.Pa /boot.config , 71or, unless option 72.Fl n 73is set, by hitting a key during a brief pause (while one of the characters 74.Sy - , 75.Sy \e , 76.Sy \&| , 77or 78.Sy / 79is displayed) before 80.Xr loader 8 81is invoked. 82Booting will also be attempted at stage two, if the 83third stage cannot be loaded. 84.Pp 85Make note of the fact that 86.Pa /boot.config 87is read only from the 88.Ql a 89partition. 90As a result, slices which are missing an 91.Ql a 92partition require user intervention during the boot process. 93.Pp 94The remainder of this subsection deals only with the boot blocks. 95The 96.Xr loader 8 97program is documented separately. 98.Pp 99After the boot blocks have been loaded, 100you should see a prompt similar to the following: 101.Bd -literal 102>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT 103Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader 104boot: 105.Ed 106.Pp 107The automatic boot will attempt to load 108.Pa /boot/loader 109from partition 110.Ql a 111of either the floppy or the hard disk. 112This boot may be aborted by typing any character on the keyboard 113at the 114.Ql boot: 115prompt. 116At this time, the following input will be accepted: 117.Bl -tag -width indent 118.It Ic \&? 119Give a short listing of the files in the root directory of the default 120boot device, as a hint about available boot files. 121(A 122.Ic ?\& 123may also be specified as the last segment of a path, in which case 124the listing will be of the relevant subdirectory.) 125.Pp 126.It Xo 127.Sm off 128.Ar bios_drive : interface ( unit , Oo Ar slice , Oc Ar part ) 129.Ar filename 130.Sm on 131.Op Fl aCcDdghmnPprsv 132.Op Fl S Ns Ar speed 133.Xc 134Specify boot file and flags. 135.Bl -tag -width indent 136.It Ar bios_drive 137The drive number as recognized by the BIOS. 1380 for the first drive, 1 for the second drive, etc. 139.It Ar interface 140The type of controller to boot from. 141Note that the controller is required 142to have BIOS support since the BIOS services are used to load the 143boot file image. 144.Pp 145The supported interfaces are: 146.Pp 147.Bl -tag -width "adXX" -compact 148.It ad 149ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL disks on a WD100[2367] or lookalike 150controller 151.It fd 1525 1/4" or 3 1/2" High density floppies 153.It da 154SCSI disk on any supported SCSI controller 155.\".It cd 156.\"boot from CDROM 157.El 158.It Ar unit 159The unit number of the drive on the interface being used. 1600 for the first drive, 1 for the second drive, etc. 161.It Oo Ar slice , Oc Ns Ar part 162The partition letter inside the 163.Bx 164portion of the disk. 165See 166.Xr bsdlabel 8 . 167By convention, only partition 168.Ql a 169contains a bootable image. 170If sliced disks are used 171.Pq Dq fdisk partitions , 172any 173.Ar slice 174(1 for the first slice, 2 for the second slice, etc.\&) 175can be booted from, with the default (if not specified) being the active slice 176or, otherwise, the first 177.Fx 178slice. 179If 180.Ar slice 181is specified as 0, the first 182.Fx 183slice (also known as 184.Dq compatibility 185slice) is booted from. 186.It Ar filename 187The pathname of the file to boot (relative to the root directory 188on the specified partition). 189Defaults to 190.Pa /boot/kernel/kernel . 191Symbolic links are not supported (hard links are). 192.It Xo Op Fl aCcDdghmnPpqrsv 193.Op Fl S Ns Ar speed 194.Xc 195Boot flags: 196.Pp 197.Bl -tag -width "-CXX" -compact 198.It Fl a 199during kernel initialization, 200ask for the device to mount as the root file system. 201.It Fl C 202try to mount root file system from a CD-ROM. 203.It Fl c 204this flag is currently a no-op. 205.It Fl D 206boot with the dual console configuration. 207In the single 208configuration, the console will be either the internal display 209or the serial port, depending on the state of the 210.Fl h 211option below. 212In the dual console configuration, 213both the internal display and the serial port will become the console 214at the same time, regardless of the state of the 215.Fl h 216option. 217.It Fl d 218enter the DDB kernel debugger 219(see 220.Xr ddb 4 ) 221as early as possible in kernel initialization. 222.It Fl g 223use the GDB remote debugging protocol. 224.It Fl h 225force the serial console. 226For instance, if you boot from the internal console, 227you can use the 228.Fl h 229option to force the kernel to use the serial port as its 230console device. 231The serial port driver 232.Xr sio 4 233has a flag (0x20) to override this option. 234If that flag is set, the serial port will always be used as the console, 235regardless of the 236.Fl h 237option described here. 238See the man page for 239.Xr sio 4 240for more details. 241.It Fl m 242mute the console. 243.It Fl n 244ignore key press to interrupt boot before 245.Xr loader 8 246is invoked. 247.It Fl P 248probe the keyboard. 249If no keyboard is found, the 250.Fl D 251and 252.Fl h 253options are automatically set. 254.It Fl p 255pause after each attached device during the device probing phase. 256.It Fl q 257be quiet, 258do not write anything to the console unless automatic boot fails or 259is disabled. 260This option only affects second-stage bootstrap, 261to prevent next stages from writing to the console use in 262combination with the 263.Fl m 264option. 265.It Fl r 266use the statically configured default for the device containing the 267root file system 268(see 269.Xr config 8 ) . 270Normally, the root file system is on the device 271that the kernel was loaded from. 272.It Fl s 273boot into single-user mode; if the console is marked as 274.Dq insecure 275(see 276.Xr ttys 5 ) , 277the root password must be entered. 278.It Fl S Ns Ar speed 279set the speed of the serial console to 280.Ar speed . 281The default is 9600 unless it has been overridden by setting 282.Va BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED 283in 284.Xr make.conf 5 285and recompiling and reinstalling the boot blocks. 286.It Fl v 287be verbose during device probing (and later). 288.El 289.El 290.El 291.Pp 292You may put a BIOS drive number, a controller type, a unit number, 293a partition, a kernel file name, and any valid option in 294.Pa /boot.config 295to set defaults. 296Enter them in one line just as you type at the 297.Ql boot: 298prompt. 299.Sh FILES 300.Bl -tag -width /boot/loader -compact 301.It Pa /boot.config 302parameters for the boot blocks (optional) 303.It Pa /boot/boot1 304first stage bootstrap file 305.It Pa /boot/boot2 306second stage bootstrap file 307.It Pa /boot/loader 308third stage bootstrap 309.It Pa /boot/kernel/kernel 310default kernel 311.It Pa /boot/kernel.old/kernel 312typical non-default kernel (optional) 313.El 314.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 315When disk-related errors occur, these are reported by the second-stage 316bootstrap using the same error codes returned by the BIOS, for example 317.Dq Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x12345678) . 318Here is a partial list of these error codes: 319.Pp 320.Bl -tag -width "0x80" -compact 321.It 0x1 322Invalid argument 323.It 0x2 324Address mark not found 325.It 0x4 326Sector not found 327.It 0x8 328DMA overrun 329.It 0x9 330DMA attempt across 64K boundary 331.It 0xc 332Invalid media 333.It 0x10 334Uncorrectable CRC/ECC error 335.It 0x20 336Controller failure 337.It 0x40 338Seek failed 339.It 0x80 340Timeout 341.El 342.Pp 343.Sy "NOTE" : 344On older machines, or otherwise where EDD support (disk packet 345interface support) is not available, all boot-related files and 346structures (including the kernel) that need to be accessed during the 347boot phase must reside on the disk at or below cylinder 1023 (as the 348BIOS understands the geometry). 349When a 350.Dq Disk error 0x1 351is reported by the second-stage bootstrap, it generally means that this 352requirement has not been adhered to. 353.Sh SEE ALSO 354.Xr ddb 4 , 355.Xr make.conf 5 , 356.Xr ttys 5 , 357.Xr boot0cfg 8 , 358.Xr bsdlabel 8 , 359.Xr btxld 8 , 360.Xr config 8 , 361.Xr halt 8 , 362.Xr loader 8 , 363.Xr reboot 8 , 364.Xr shutdown 8 365.Sh BUGS 366The 367.Xr bsdlabel 5 368format used by this version of 369.Bx 370is quite 371different from that of other architectures. 372.Pp 373Due to space constraints, the keyboard probe initiated by the 374.Fl P 375option is simply a test that the BIOS has detected an 376.Dq extended 377keyboard. 378If an 379.Dq XT/AT 380keyboard (with no F11 and F12 keys, etc.) is attached, the probe will 381fail. 382