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reboot \- UNIX bootstrapping procedures
UNIX is started by placing it in memory
at location zero and transferring to the entry point.
Since the system is not reenterable,
it is necessary to read it in from disk or tape
each time it is to be bootstrapped.
.B Rebooting a running system.
When a UNIX is running and a reboot is desired,
If there are no users then
Reboot causes the disks to be synced, and then a multi-user
reboot (as described below) is initiated. This causes a system to be
booted and an automatic disk check to be performed. If all this succeeds
without incident, the system is then brought up for many users.
option avoids the sync. It can be used if a disk or the processor
reboots quickly and ungracefully, without shutting down running
normally logs the reboot using
and places a shutdown record in the login accounting file
These actions are inhibited if the
.B "Power fail and crash recovery."
Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes.
Provided the auto-restart is enabled on the machine front panel,
an automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed,
and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
These are processor type dependent.
On an 11/780, there are two floppy files for each disk controller,
both of which cause boots from unit 0 of the root file system
of a controller located on mba0 or uba0.
One gives a single user shell, while the other invokes the multi-user
automatic reboot. Thus these files are HPS and HPM for the single
and multi-user boot from MASSBUS RP06/RM03/RM05 disks,
UPS and UPM for UNIBUS storage module controller and disks
and AMPEX 9300 pair, or HKS and HKM for RK07 disks.
There is also a script for booting from the default device,
which is normally a copy of one of the standard multi-user boot scripts,
but which may be modified to perform other actions
or to boot from a different unit.
The situation on the 8600 is similar, with scripts loaded from the console RL02.
Would boot the system from (e.g.) an RP06 and run the automatic consistency
be necessary to type control-P
to gain the attention of the LSI-11 before getting the >>> prompt.)
invokes a version of the boot program in a way which allows you to
specify any system as the system to be booted.
It reads from the console a device specification (see below) followed
immediately by a pathname.
The scripts may be modified for local configuration if necessary.
The boot device type is set in register 10 as the device major number.
The flags and minor device are placed in register 11.
The register is used in four one-byte fields; from least to most significant,
they are boot flags (as defined in
disk partition, drive unit, and adaptor number (UNIBUS or MASSBUS as
On an 11/750, the reset button will boot from the device
selected by the front panel boot device switch. In systems
with RK07's, position B normally selects the RK07 for boot.
This will boot multi-user. To boot from RK07 with boot flags you
where, giving a \fIn\fR of 1 causes the boot program
to ask for the name of the system to be bootstrapped,
giving a \fIn\fR of 2 causes the boot program to come up single
user, and a \fIn\fR of 3 causes both of these actions to occur.
The ``DM'' specifies RK07, the ``A'' represents the adaptor number (UNIBUS
or MASSBUS), and the ``0'' is the drive unit number.
Other disk types which may be used are DB (MASSBUS), DD (TU58),
A non-zero disk partition can be used by adding (partition times 1000 hex)
The 11/750 boot procedure uses the boot roms to load block 0 off of
the specified device. The /usr/mdec directory contains a number
of bootstrap programs for the various disks which should be placed
in a new pack automatically by
when the ``a'' partition file system on the pack is created.
finds the corresponding file on the given device
by default), loads that file
into memory location zero, and starts the program at the entry address
specified in the program header (after clearing off the high bit
of the specified entry address).
The file specifications used with \*(lqBOOT ANY\*(rq or \*(lqB/3\*(rq
is the type of the device to be searched,
is 8 * the mba or uba number plus
the unit number of the disk or tape,
is the disk partition or tape file number.
Normal line editing characters can be used when typing the file specification.
The following list of supported devices may vary from installation to
up UNIBUS storage module drive
ht TE16,TU45,TU77 on MASSBUS
ra storage module on a UDA50
rb storage module on a 730 IDC
tm TM11 emulation tape drives on UNIBUS
to boot from a file system which starts at cylinder 0
of unit 0 of a MASSBUS disk, type \*(lqhp(0,0)vmunix\*(rq
to the boot prompt; \*(lqup(0,0)vmunix\*(rq would specify
a UNIBUS drive, \*(lqhk(0,0)vmunix\*(rq would specify
an RK07 disk drive, \*(lqra(0,0)vmunix\*(rq would specify a
UDA50 disk drive, and \*(lqrb(0,0)vmunix\*(rq would specify a
For tapes, the minor device number gives a file offset.
In an emergency, the bootstrap methods described in the paper
``Installing and Operating 4.3bsd'' can be used
to boot from a distribution tape.
.ta \w'/usr/mdec/installboot 'u
/usr/mdec/xxboot sector-0 boot block for 750, xx is disk type
/usr/mdec/bootxx second-stage boot for 750, xx is disk type
/usr/mdec/installboot program to install boot blocks on 750