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- .TH "ABOOTCONF" "8" "26 Oktober 2003" "abootconf" ""
- .SH NAME
- abootconf \- Configure the location of the configuration file for the secondary bootloader aboot(8) for Linux/Alpha.
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .sp
- \fBabootconf\fR \fB/dev/xxx num\fR
- .SH "COPYRIGHT"
- .PP
- \fBabootconf\fR is Copyright (C) 1996 Linus Torvalds, David Mosberger-Tang and Michael Schwingen
- .SH "DESCRIPTIONS"
- .PP
- \fBabootconf\fR is used to change the partition
- the alpha Linux boot loader \fBaboot\fR(8)
- looks for its configuration file in. The configuration file is stored
- in \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR(5)
- relative to the root of the file system in this partition.
- .PP
- \fBabootconf\fR requires the boot device
- (e.g. \fI/dev/hdb\fR, \fI/dev/sda\fR) and the
- partition
- to be used (e.g. 3). Thus if you want to boot from partition E: on your second
- SCSI disk you would enter
- .PP
- \fBabootconf \fI/dev/sdb 5\fB\fR
- .SH "NOTES"
- .PP
- \fBabootconf\fR is not needed if you are booting
- your alpha system via \fBmilo\fR.
- .PP
- For each disk one partition can be activated to contain the configuration
- for \fBaboot\fR(8) which is located in
- \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR(5).
- The disk chosen to boot from is selected at
- the SRM prompt as the second argument, e.g.
- .PP
- \fBboot \fIdqa\fB\fR
- .PP
- to boot from your first IDE hard disk. See the HP SRM-Manual and
- \fBaboot\fR(8)
- for details.
- .PP
- \fBaboot\fR(8) can load a kernel from an
- arbitrary partition and can even use a different
- root partition than the one \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR
- belongs to. Hence you would usually
- set up one \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR with all combinations and
- would not require \fBabootconf\fR except for initial
- set up. You can then
- boot the requested
- Linux kernel by giving the appropriate flags at the SRM prompt, e.g. to boot
- the entry labeled 2 you would use
- .PP
- \fBboot \fIdqa -fl "2"\fB\fR
- .PP
- See the HP SRM manual and \fIaboot.conf\fR(5)
- for details.
- .PP
- To show the current setting simply omit the last argument (i.e. the partition
- number).
- .PP
- Note that you have to rerun \fBabootconf\fR if you updated
- \fBaboot\fR.
- .PP
- Strictly speaking \fBabootconf\fR is not necessary as
- you can specify the partition which \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR
- resides on at the SRM-Prompt by prepending the partition number and a colon
- in the flags-parameter, i.e. if \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR
- resided on the fourth partition and you want to boot the entry labeled 2
- you could also issue
- .PP
- \fBboot \fIdqa -fl "4:2"\fB\fR
- .PP
- at the SRM prompt.
- .PP
- Note that this applies to Linux only as VMS, Tru64, *BSD and
- Windows NT each have their own secondary boot loader.
- .PP
- Also note that for initial hard disk setup \fBabootconf\fR
- is no longer needed as \fBswriteboot\fR(8) contains the
- entire functionality of \fBabootconf\fR.
- .SH "AUTHOR"
- .PP
- This man page was written by Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux project but may be used by others.
- .SH "FILES"
- .PP
- \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .PP
- \fBaboot\fR(8), \fBswriteboot\fR(8), \fIaboot.conf\fR(5), HP SRM Manual
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