April 19, 1994 BOOT 8 next68k

### NAME

boot - system bootstrapping procedures

### DESCRIPTION

#### Power fail and crash recovery

Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes. An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed, and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.

#### Cold starts

On an NeXT, the boot procedure uses the boot ROM to load a boot program over the network using BOOTP and TFTP. The ```/usr/mdec` directory contains a network boot program which should be made available via tftp(1). The network boot program will load ```netbsd` from the NFS root as determined by the procedure described in diskless(8).

### FILES

```/netbsd`
  system code
```/usr/mdec/boot`
  boot program for NFS (diskless) boot

### SEE ALSO

halt(8), init(8), rc(8), reboot(8), shutdown(8)