REBOOT(8) BSD/sparc System Manager's Manual REBOOT(8)NAME
reboot — UNIX bootstrapping procedures
SYNOPSIS
reboot [-n] [-q]
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 as described in fsck(8). and unless this
fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
Cold starts The SPARC system currently uses the SunOS bootstrap loaders.
This will be changed in a future version of the system. The SunOS boot
will attempt to load vmunix from partition A of the boot device, which
must currently be an ``sd'' disk.
The [-s] flag to the SunOS boot loader will being the system up in sin‐
gle-user mode. The [-d] flag to the SunOS boot loader will bring the
system up in debug mode. Here it waits for a kernel debugger connect;
see kgdb(8). Other flags are currently ignored.
FILES
/vmunix system code
/boot system bootstrap
SEE ALSOcrash(8), disklabel(8), fsck(8), halt(8), init(8), rc(8), shutdown(8),
syslogd(8)BUGS
The use of Sun disk labels, without the ability to write them, is prob‐
lematic.
BSD April 19, 1994 BSD
