386BSD 0.1 development

Work on file usr/src/sbin/fastboot/fastboot.8

Co-Authored-By: Lynne Greer Jolitz <ljolitz@cardio.ucsf.edu>
Synthesized-from: 386BSD-0.1

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+.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\"     @(#)fastboot.8 6.3 (Berkeley) 3/16/91
+.\"
+.Dd March 16, 1991
+.Dt FASTBOOT 8
+.Os BSD 4.2
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm fastboot ,
+.Nm fasthalt
+.Nd "reboot/halt the system without checking the disks"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm fastboot
+.Op Ar boot-options
+.Nm fasthalt
+.Op Ar halt-options
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm Fastboot
+and
+.Nm fasthalt
+are shell scripts which reboot and halt the system without
+checking the file systems.  This is done by creating a
+file 
+.Pa /fastboot ,
+then invoking the 
+.Xr reboot
+program.  The system startup script,
+.Pa /etc/rc ,
+looks for this file and, if present, skips the normal
+invocation of
+.Xr fsck 8 .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr halt 8 ,
+.Xr reboot 8 ,
+.Xr rc 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+command appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .