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.TH BOOTING 8 .SH NAME booting \- bootstrapping procedures .SH SYNOPSIS none .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page collects the incantations required to bootstrap Plan 9 machines. Some of the information here is specific to the installation at Bell Labs; some is generic. .PP If a CPU server is up, BOOTP/DHCP and TFTP will run from there; if not, the necessary files and services must be available on a separate machine, such as a Unix system, to use these protocols for bootstrapping. .PP Be sure to read .IR boot (8) to understand what happens after the kernel is loaded. .SS Terminals To bootstrap a diskless terminal or a CPU server, a file server must be running. .SS PCs On a PC, the .IR 9boot (8) program is used to load the kernel .B /386/9pcf into memory. .PP Once the kernel is booted, it behaves like the others. See .IR boot (8) for details. .SS Alpha PCs Alpha PCs must be booted via TFTP using the SRM console. If the system has ARC firmware instead, SRM may be downloaded from .IP .EX http://www.compaq.com/ .EE .PP You must configure the SRM firmware to load the file .BR /alpha/bootalphapc . The following commands may be used (replace .B ewa0 with the name of your ethernet device, if different): .IP .EX set boot_reset ON set boot_file /alpha/bootalphapc set bootdef_dev ewa0 set ewa0_inet_init bootp set ewa0_protocols BOOTP .EE .PP This secondary bootstrap program will first load the file .BR /alpha/conf/ <IP-address> (substituting the IP address of the system as obtained via bootp). This file is expected to be in .IR plan9.ini (8) format (the file .B /alpha/conf/10.0.0.2 may be used as a template). It then loads the kernel via tftp, using the value of .B bootfile to tell it which file to load; this should be .B /alpha/9apc for terminals. .SS CPU Servers The Plan 9 CPU servers are multi-user, so they do not request a user name when booting. .SS PC CPU Server Proceed as for the PC terminal, but load .B /386/9pccpuf . .SS Alpha PC CPU Server Proceed as for the Alpha PC terminal, but use .B /alpha/9apccpu as the value of .BR bootfile . .SS SGI Challenge multiprocessor CPU Server The Challenge ROM monitor can boot from the Ethernet. To boot from the Ethernet, type .IP .EX .B bootp()/mips/9ch .EE .PP or use the ROM command .B setenv to set the variable .B bootfile to that same string and type .BR boot . To load a different file, tell .B bootp which file to load, and to force the download to come from a particular system, .BR bootp()system:file . Any arguments after .B bootp()file are passed to .BR /boot . If you are running a Plan 9 .SM BOOTP server (see .IR dhcpd (8)), the file name can be omitted and the file specified by the .B bootf parameter for the machine in .B /lib/ndb will be downloaded by default. .PP Once the kernel is loaded, it prompts for the Ethernet protocol to use to reach the root file server; request the default. . .SS ARM CPU Servers All ARM systems are started by .I U-boot using similar commands. The kernels (and thus .I ndb .L bootf parameters) are .L /arm/9gd for the Marvell PXA168-based Guruplug Display, .L /arm/9plug for all Marvell Kirkwood plugs (Sheevaplug, Guruplug, Openrd, etc.), and .L /arm/9beagle for TI OMAP3 boards (IGEPv2 from ISEE, Gumstix Overo). In the following, replace .I MAC with your board's MAC address without colons, in lower case (the format of the .L ether .I ndb attribute). .PP First, establish a .I /cfg/pxe (\c .IR plan9.ini ) file for the new CPU server. For Kirkwood plugs, .IP .EX cd /cfg/pxe; cp example-kw \fIMAC .EE .PP and edit .L /cfg/pxe/\fIMAC to taste. For PXA plugs, replace .L kw with .LR pxa ; for OMAP boards, replace .L kw with .LR omap and be sure to edit the line for .L ether0 to set .IP .EX ea=\fIMAC .EE .PP Second, configure .I U-boot to load the appropriate kernel and .I /cfg/pxe file at suitable addresses and start the kernel. For Sheevaplugs and Openrd boards, type this at U-boot once: .IP .EX setenv bootdelay 2 # \fItype the next two lines as one\fP setenv bootcmd 'bootp; bootp; tftp 0x1000 /cfg/pxe/\fIMAC\fP; bootp; tftp 0x800000; go 0x800000' saveenv .EE .PP For Guruplugs Displays, do the same but type this after .L "setenv bootcmd" instead: .IP .EX \&'dhcp; tftpboot; tftpboot 0x1000 /cfg/pxe/\fIMAC\fP; bootz 0x500000' .EE .PP For Kirkwood Guruplugs, type this after .LR "setenv bootcmd" : .IP .EX \&'dhcp 0x800000; tftp 0x1000 /cfg/pxe/\fIMAC\fP; go 0x800000' .EE .PP For IGEPv2 boards, type this after .LR "setenv bootcmd" : .IP .EX \&'tftp 0x80300000 /cfg/pxe/\fIMAC\fP; dhcp 0x80310000; go 0x80310000' .EE .PP For Gumstix Overo boards, type this after .LR "setenv bootcmd" : .IP .EX \&'bootp 0x80310000; bootp 0x80300000 /cfg/pxe/\fIMAC\fP; go 0x80310000' .EE .PP Thereafter, the boards will automatically boot via BOOTP and TFTP when reset. . .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR ndb (6), .IR 9boot (8), .IR boot (8), .IR init (8), .IR plan9.ini (8) .SH SOURCE Sources for the various boot programs are under .BR /sys/src/boot .