BOOT_SPARC64(8) OpenBSD System Manager's Manual (SPARC64) BOOT_SPARC64(8)NAMEboot_sparc64 - sparc64 system bootstrapping procedures
DESCRIPTION
System starts
When powered on, after a panic, or if the system is rebooted via
reboot(8) or shutdown(8), the PROM will proceed to its initialization,
and will boot an operating system if autoboot is enabled.
Boot process description
System boot blocks are installed near the start of the boot disk using
the procedure described in installboot(8). The boot program attempts to
load the kernel from the selected boot device, which must currently be an
SCSI (``sd'') or IDE (``wd'') disk drive, or a CD-ROM (``cd''), or an
SCSI tape drive (``st'').
The UltraSPARC Open Firmware will normally look for a bootloader on the
device specified by the boot-device variable. The OpenBSD bootloader
will then look for a kernel named bsd by default, unless the boot-file
variable is set, or a different filename has been specified in the boot
command. To reset this variable to its default, empty, value, type the
following:
ok set-default boot-file
Autoboot is enabled by setting the auto-boot? variable to ``true'', and
is the factory default.
Boot process options
The following options are recognized:
-a Prompt for the root filesystem and swap devices after the
devices have been configured.
-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.
Accessing the PROM during runtime
If the sysctl(8) variable ddb.console is enabled, at any time you can
break back to the ROM by pressing the ``L1'' (also known as the ``stop
key'') and ``a'' keys at the same time (if the console is a serial port
the same is achieved by sending a ``break''), and entering machine prom
at the prompt. If you do this accidentally you can continue whatever was
in progress by typing go at the PROM prompt, and then cont to return to
the system.
FILES
/bsd default system kernel
/bsd.rd standalone installation kernel, suitable for
disaster recovery
/usr/mdec/bootblk primary bootstrap for ``ffs'' file system
/usr/mdec/ofwboot secondary bootstrap (usually also installed as
/ofwboot)
/usr/mdec/ofwboot.net network bootstrap
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