date and time created 92/07/09 18:25:34 by torek

SCCS-vsn: sbin/reboot/boot_sparc.8 5.1

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+.\" Copyright (c) 1992 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
+.\"
+.\"     @(#)boot_sparc.8       5.1 (Berkeley) %G%
+.\"
+.Dd 
+.Dt REBOOT 8
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm reboot
+.Nd
+.Tn UNIX
+bootstrapping procedures
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm reboot
+.Op Fl n
+.Op Fl q
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Sy Power fail and crash recovery.
+Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes.
+An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed
+as described in
+.Xr fsck 8 .
+and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
+.Pp
+.Sy Cold starts
+The SPARC system currently uses the SunOS bootstrap loaders.
+This will be changed in a future version of the system.
+The SunOS boot will attempt to load
+.Pa vmunix
+from partition A of the boot device,
+which must currently be an ``sd'' disk.
+.Pp
+The
+.Op Fl s
+flag to the SunOS boot loader will being the system up in single-user mode.
+The
+.Op Fl d
+flag to the SunOS boot loader will bring the system up in debug mode.
+Here it waits for a kernel debugger connect; see
+.Xr kgdb 8 .
+Other flags are currently ignored.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /vmunixxx -compact
+.It Pa /vmunix
+system code
+.It Pa /boot
+system bootstrap
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr crash 8 ,
+.Xr disklabel 8 ,
+.Xr fsck 8 ,
+.Xr halt 8 ,
+.Xr init 8 ,
+.Xr rc 8 ,
+.Xr shutdown 8 ,
+.Xr syslogd 8
+.Sh BUGS
+The use of Sun disk labels, without the ability to write them,
+is problematic.