BOOT(8) | System Manager's Manual (next68k) | BOOT(8)

# NAME

`boot` — system bootstrapping procedures

# DESCRIPTION

## 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, and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.

## Cold starts

On a NeXT, the boot procedure uses the boot ROM to load a boot program over the network using BOOTP and TFTP. The /usr/mdec directory contains a network boot program which should be made available via tftp(1). The network boot program will load netbsd from the NFS root as determined by the procedure described in diskless(8).

# FILES

/netbsd
  system code
/usr/mdec/boot
  boot program for NFS (diskless) boot

# SEE ALSO

halt(8), init(8), rc(8), reboot(8), shutdown(8)

September 1, 2019 | NetBSD 10.99