NAME
boot —
system bootstrapping
procedures
DESCRIPTION
Power fail and crash
recovery
Unfortunately, on most machines, the system can't reboot itself at power-up or
after crashes. You might have to restart the system manually. Once the system
starts, an automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed,
and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
Cold starts
Typical MIPS based Windows CE Handheld machines attempt to boot Windows CE
operating system in its own boot ROM. You can't boot the
NetBSD directly skipping Windows CE. The
NetBSD bootloaders are provided as application
programs on Windows CE instead. You can choose
hpcmips/pbsdboot(8)
or
hpcboot(8). Though the
bootloaders are application programs, they blow away the entire Windows CE OS
and its settings when the kernel boots successfully.
Normal Operation
Once running, a familiar window will appear. You can choose the machine type,
kernel file location and kernel boot options with a GUI and push the button
named “
[boot]
” to boot
NetBSD.
Automatic mode
The bootloaders have an “
auto boot
” option.
If you enable this option, the specified kernel will be loaded automatically
after a countdown.
FILES
- /netbsd
- system kernel
- /netbsd.gz
- gzip-compressed kernel
- pbsdboot1.exe
- bootloader executable file for Windows CE version 1.01
- pbsdboot.exe
- bootloader executable file for Windows CE
- hpcboot.exe
- new bootloader executable file for Windows CE
SEE ALSO
kloader(4),
hpcboot(8),
hpcmips/pbsdboot(8)
BUGS
There is no general way to launch a bootloader automatically while a few Windows
CE machine provide an “auto run” mechanism.