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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS 17.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, 18.\" OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT 19.\" OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR 20.\" BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, 21.\" WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE 22.\" OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, 23.\" EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd November 7, 2011 28.Dt BOOT0CFG 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm boot0cfg 32.Nd boot manager installation/configuration utility 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl Bv 36.Op Fl b Ar boot0 37.Op Fl d Ar drive 38.Op Fl e Ar bell character 39.Op Fl f Ar file 40.Op Fl i Ar volume-id 41.Op Fl m Ar mask 42.Op Fl o Ar options 43.Op Fl s Ar slice 44.Op Fl t Ar ticks 45.Ar disk 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Fx 49.Sq boot0 50boot manager permits the operator to select from which disk and 51slice an i386 machine (PC) is booted. 52.Pp 53Note that what are referred to here as 54.Dq slices 55are typically called 56.Dq partitions 57in 58.No non- Ns Bx 59documentation relating to the PC. 60Typically, only non-removable disks are sliced. 61.Pp 62The 63.Nm 64utility optionally installs the 65.Sq boot0 66boot manager on the specified 67.Ar disk ; 68and allows various operational parameters to be configured. 69.Pp 70On PCs, a boot manager typically occupies sector 0 of a disk, which is 71known as the Master Boot Record (MBR). 72The MBR contains both code (to which control is passed by the PC BIOS) 73and data (an embedded table of defined slices). 74.Pp 75The options are: 76.Bl -tag -width indent 77.It Fl B 78Install the 79.Sq boot0 80boot manager. 81This option causes MBR code to be replaced, without 82affecting the embedded slice table. 83.It Fl b Ar boot0 84Specify which 85.Sq boot0 86image to use. 87The default is 88.Pa /boot/boot0 89which will use the video card as output, alternatively 90.Pa /boot/boot0sio 91can be used for output to the COM1 port. 92(Be aware that nothing will be output to the COM1 port unless the 93modem signals DSR and CTS are active.) 94.It Fl d Ar drive 95Specify the drive number used by the PC BIOS in referencing the drive 96which contains the specified 97.Ar disk . 98Typically this will be 0x80 for the first hard drive, 0x81 for the 99second hard drive, and so on; however any integer between 0 and 0xff 100is acceptable here. 101.It Fl e Ar bell character 102Set the character to be printed in case of input error. 103.It Fl f Ar file 104Specify that a backup copy of the preexisting MBR should be written to 105.Ar file . 106This file is created if it does not exist, and replaced if it does. 107.It Fl i Ar volume-id 108Specifies a volume-id (in the form XXXX-XXXX) to be saved at location 1090x1b8 in the MBR. This information is sometimes used by NT, XP and Vista 110to identify the disk drive. The option is only compatible with version 2.00 111of the 512-byte boot block. 112.It Fl m Ar mask 113Specify slices to be enabled/disabled, where 114.Ar mask 115is an integer between 0 (no slices enabled) and 0xf (all four slices 116enabled). 117.It Fl o Ar options 118A comma-separated string of any of the following options may be 119specified (with 120.Dq no 121prepended as necessary): 122.Bl -tag -width indent 123.It packet 124Use the disk packet (BIOS INT 0x13 extensions) interface, 125as opposed to the legacy (CHS) interface, when doing disk I/O. 126This allows booting above cylinder 1023, but requires specific 127BIOS support. 128The default is 129.Sq packet . 130.It setdrv 131Forces the drive containing the disk to be referenced using drive 132number definable by means of the -d option. 133The default is 134.Sq nosetdrv . 135.It update 136Allow the MBR to be updated by the boot manager. 137(The MBR may be updated to flag slices as 138.Sq active , 139and to save slice selection information.) 140This is the default; a 141.Sq noupdate 142option causes the MBR to be treated as read-only. 143.El 144.It Fl s Ar slice 145Set the default boot selection to 146.Ar slice . 147Values between 1 and 4 refer to slices; a value of 5 refers to the 148option of booting from a second disk. 149.It Fl t Ar ticks 150Set the timeout value to 151.Ar ticks . 152(There are approximately 18.2 ticks per second.) 153.It Fl v 154Verbose: display information about the slices defined, etc. 155.El 156.Sh FILES 157.Bl -tag -width /boot/boot0sio -compact 158.It Pa /boot/boot0 159The default 160.Sq boot0 161image 162.It Pa /boot/boot0sio 163Image for serial consoles (COM1,9600,8,N,1,MODEM) 164.El 165.Sh EXIT STATUS 166.Ex -std 167.Sh EXAMPLES 168To boot slice 2 on the next boot: 169.Pp 170.Dl "boot0cfg -s 2 ad0" 171.Pp 172To enable just slices 1 and 2 in the menu: 173.Pp 174.Dl "boot0cfg -m 0x3 ad0" 175.Pp 176To go back to non-interactive booting, use 177.Xr fdisk 8 178to install the default MBR: 179.Pp 180.Dl "fdisk -B ad0" 181.Pp 182.Sh SEE ALSO 183.Xr geom 4 , 184.Xr boot 8 , 185.Xr fdisk 8 , 186.Xr gpart 8 187.Sh AUTHORS 188.An Robert Nordier Aq rnordier@FreeBSD.org . 189.Sh BUGS 190Use of the 191.Sq packet 192option may cause 193.Sq boot0 194to fail, depending on the nature of BIOS support. 195.Pp 196Use of the 197.Sq setdrv 198option with an incorrect -d operand may cause the boot0 code 199to write the MBR to the wrong disk, thus trashing its previous 200content. Be careful. 201