1.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)boot_sparc.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 04/19/94 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt REBOOT 8 sparc 10.Os 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm reboot 13.Nd 14.Tn UNIX 15bootstrapping procedures 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.Nm reboot 18.Op Fl n 19.Op Fl q 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21.Sy Power fail and crash recovery. 22Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes. 23An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed 24as described in 25.Xr fsck 8 . 26and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations. 27.Pp 28.Sy Cold starts 29The SPARC system currently uses the SunOS bootstrap loaders. 30This will be changed in a future version of the system. 31The SunOS boot will attempt to load 32.Pa vmunix 33from partition A of the boot device, 34which must currently be an ``sd'' disk. 35.Pp 36The 37.Op Fl s 38flag to the SunOS boot loader will being the system up in single-user mode. 39The 40.Op Fl d 41flag to the SunOS boot loader will bring the system up in debug mode. 42Here it waits for a kernel debugger connect; see 43.Xr kgdb 8 . 44Other flags are currently ignored. 45.Sh FILES 46.Bl -tag -width /vmunixxx -compact 47.It Pa /vmunix 48system code 49.It Pa /boot 50system bootstrap 51.El 52.Sh SEE ALSO 53.Xr crash 8 , 54.Xr disklabel 8 , 55.Xr fsck 8 , 56.Xr halt 8 , 57.Xr init 8 , 58.Xr rc 8 , 59.Xr shutdown 8 , 60.Xr syslogd 8 61.Sh BUGS 62The use of Sun disk labels, without the ability to write them, 63is problematic. 64