BOOT_MVME88K(8) OpenBSD System Manager's Manual (MVME88k) BOOT_MVME88K(8)NAMEboot_mvme88k - mvme88k system bootstrapping procedures
DESCRIPTION
Cold starts
When powered on, the mvme88k BUG firmware will proceed to its
initialization, and will boot an operating system if autoboot is enabled.
By sending a ``break'' to the serial line during the initialization
sequence, it is possible to stop the boot process and interact with the
BUG.
Warm starts
After a panic, or if the system is rebooted via reboot(8) or shutdown(8),
the BUG firmware will only restart the operating system if autoboot is
enabled and ``Auto Boot at power-up only'' is disabled in the BUG
environment.
Boot process options
The BUG firmware will let the user enter a boot device identification,
kernel filename and boot options. If no filename is specified, /bsd will
be used by default.
The following boot options are recognized:
-a Prompt for the root filesystem device after the devices have
been configured.
-b On the next system reboot, always halt the system, even if a
reboot is required.
-c Enter the ``User Kernel Configuration'' mode upon startup
(see boot_config(8)).
-d Enter the debugger, ddb(4), as soon as the kernel console has
been initialized.
-s Boot the system single-user. The system will be booted
multi-user unless this option is specified.
Abnormal system termination
In case of system crashes, the kernel will usually enter the kernel
debugger, ddb(4), unless it is not present in the kernel, or it is
disabled via the ddb.panic sysctl. Upon leaving ddb, or if ddb was not
entered, the kernel will halt the system if it was still in device
configuration phase, or attempt a dump to the configured dump device, if
possible. The crash dump will then be recovered by savecore(8) during
the next multi-user boot cycle. It is also possible to force other
behaviours from ddb.
FILES
/bsd default system kernel
/bsd.rd standalone installation kernel, suitable for
disaster recovery
/usr/mdec/bootxx primary bootstrap code for ``ffs'' file system on
SCSI disks
/usr/mdec/bootsd secondary bootstrap code for SCSI disks (usually
also installed as /bootsd)
/usr/mdec/bootst SCSI tape bootstrap code
/usr/mdec/netboot network bootstrap code
/usr/mdec/tftpboot tftp-only network bootstrap code
/usr/mdec/stboot Motorola VID block put as first file on bootable
SCSI tapes
SEE ALSOddb(4), boot_config(8), halt(8), init(8), installboot(8), reboot(8),
savecore(8), shutdown(8)OpenBSD 4.9 January 3, 2010 OpenBSD 4.9