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2023-05-17installboot(8): fix up markupuwe
Don't overuse .Sy - when everything is highlighted, nothing is. Use .Ic for options &c to get correct PostScript output (both are bold in plain text). Use Aq Ar inside .Pa, as both Pa and Ar are rendered as underscored text in plain text output, and the distinction is lost. Don't set examples in bold, but give them .Pp space around - they are much easier to read this way. Use consistent -width in FILES.
2023-05-16installboot(8): formatting improvementslukem
Use Ar foo instead of <foo>; this is mdoc. Other formatting tweaks.
2022-08-19installboot(8): Note relation to UEFI boot and hybrid images.riastradh
2022-08-19installboot(8): Fix capitalization of U-Boot.riastradh
2022-07-10usr.sbin/installboot: Add a command line option (-u) to set U-Boot search pathsbrook
Installboot can install U-Boot boot blocks directly into a system image. Normally, the U-Boot files are searched for in /usr/pkg/share/u-boot, under the expectation that most people will build them with pkgsrc. However, it is also possible to set an environment variable (INSTALLBOOT_UBOOT_PATHS) to a colon-separated search path to accommodate other situations. This commit adds a command line option (-u) to set the search path; if present, it overrides the environment and default.
2021-12-05s/filesytem/filesystem/msaitoh
2021-02-25Adjust manpage for amiga/boot ver 3.1.rin
Bump date.
2021-02-06Mention fdisk(8) and x86/mbr(8) in example for x86, for carelessrin
people like me ;). Bump date.
2020-06-06Reduce macro arguments.wiz
2020-06-06Fix ews4800mips example. Its raw partition is rsd0p, not rsd0c.tsutsui
2019-05-07Fix typos. Fix link. Use Pa for path.wiz
2019-05-07Add installboot(8) support for evbarm (and, in the future, other evb*)thorpej
boards that use u-boot. A known board database lists boards and their respective u-boot packages. u-boot packages are discovered at run-time (in /usr/pkg/share/u-boot, by default). These packages contain board database overlays that describe u-boot installation procedure that's specific for that board. Support this as a native tool and as a host tool. The native tool will attempt to determine the running board type using OpenFirmware calls. Host tool and native tool alike may also specify a board type directly using the "-o board=xxx option" or have installboot(8) determine the board type from a device tree blob using "-o dtb=/path/to/board.dtb". A "-o media=xxx" option is provided for boards that have different u-boot binaries and/or installation procedures for different media types (e.g. SDMMC, eMMC, or USB). This is trivial to extend to other evb* platforms that use u-boot, even if they don't use FDT for autoconfiguration.
2017-08-15Remove superfluous Tn macros.wiz
2017-08-15merge the rest of sbmips into evbmips. install the stand files inmrg
/usr/mdec/sbmips/ and document them in installboot(8) even though it isn't really ported yet. also build the SBMIPS kernels. unfortunately, sbmips has been broken since mips64 merge, but the fix can happen in the evbmips version, which we might merge into the older trees anyway. XXX: releng can turn off sbmips* builds now for -current.
2017-07-03Remove workaround for ancient HTML generation code.wiz
2017-03-15Bump date for previous.wiz
2017-03-14Document option console=auto. Works since at least NetBSD 6. [i386,amd64]bad
2016-06-21Fix a typo: s/can be use/can be used/alnsn
2015-03-22Use An in AUTHORS section.wiz
2015-03-22Appease various mandoc -Tlint warnings and update copyright while we're hereast
2014-02-24Rename NetBSD/hp700 to NetBSD/hppa.skrll
Unfortunately our VCS isn't very helpful here.
2012-03-10Add missing word.wiz
2012-03-10Some FAT16 filesystems don't have 'hidden sectors' correctly set todsl
the offset of the filesystem on the disk. Let '-b s1blk' be used to fix the value.
2012-02-11Use "NetBSD 6.0" and not "NetBSD 6" and sound less like a broken record.ast
Add note where the actual example is because that's where it's expected. Part of earlier commit ok-ed by releng@
2012-02-10Remove trailing whitespace. Put macro arguments on same line.wiz
2012-02-09Update the amd64 and i386 examples to use /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2,ast
i.e. DEFAULT_UFS2 as src/distrib/utils/sysinst/bsddisklabel.c does since post-NetBSD5. This avoids rendering an i386 or amd64 system unbootable if the given example is thoughtlessly cut-and-pasted on a NetBSD6.x system (been there, done that ;-) Qualify the descriptions of /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv{1,2} along those lines. Fixed a small typo in comment of distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/amd64/md.h. Ok by releng@
2012-01-09Update for hp700. Bump date.skrll
2012-01-09s/ISO9660/ISO 9660/ for consistency with rest of man page.skrll
2011-11-03Minor nits in the sparc64 examplemartin
2011-08-29Typo.alnsn
2011-08-03Explain how to use -e -v without -o to see the current options.gdt
Caution that installing a new primary bootstrap will reset options to default values.
2011-04-25Use rsd0c instead of the (far less common) rwd0c as boot disk in themartin
sparc64 example.
2010-11-21Sort options.jym
2010-01-14On i386/amd64, define two flag bits in the boot parameters which controldrochner
whether modules are loaded and whether boot.cfg is evaluated, and set both to "off" per default in the PXE bootloader. Extend "installboot" to toggle the bits. This way, pxeboot works with existing dhcp server setups (and as described in the manpage) out of the box. Also, boot.cfg reading involves a stat() call which is horribly inefficient with the TFTP pseudo file system.
2009-05-07Add reminder to confirm the ffs format using dumpfs(8).lukem
2008-10-12Try to improve documentation of the fact that the primary bootstrap isapb
specified using a file name on the running system, while the secondary bootstrap is specified using a file name relative to the root of the file systrem in which the installation is being performed. Inspired by PR 39728 by der Mouse
2008-10-02Drop trailing whitespace; bump date for previous.wiz
2008-10-02Add example using installboot -esborrill
2008-09-24Add missing comma in SEE ALSO list.reed
2008-04-30Convert TNF licenses to new 2 clause variantmartin
2007-07-05Note here that -e can be used on the pxeboot_ia32.bin file.dsl
(It is already mentioned on the pxeboot(8) page.)
2007-06-01Bring the example concerning a bootable ISO9660 for i386 up-to-date,dyoung
demonstrating the -e option.
2007-02-17Sort SEE ALSO.wiz
2007-02-15Add a -f (force) parameter to installboot(8).dsl
If specified then checks on the disks BPB are not done, and any existing BPB is deleted. This is needed soince newfs(8) doesn't overwrite the BPB - which is basically the FAT superblock. Update documentation and add an example of using bootxx_fat16.
2007-01-08Drop trailing space.wiz
2007-01-06Document bootxx_fat16 with a short description of why it differs fromdsl
bootxx_msdos.
2006-12-23Reword OF3 restrictions, ok tsutsui@.wiz
Bump date.
2006-12-23New sentence, new line. Improve English.wiz
2006-11-25Add some macppc specific description. Closes PR port-macppc/34496 by myself.tsutsui
2006-09-24Mark up a path with .Pa.wiz