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EEPROM is electrically erasable programmable read only memory. It is used on the sparc to store a little program that runs automatically when the system turns on. The name of the program is OBP. PC's work the same way, but on a PC, the name of the program is bios. When a program is stored in EEPROM it is called firmware. NVRAM is non-volatile random access memory. On the sparc it is used by OBP to store stuff like the boot paths. Typically, OBP will read the boot path, which points to some disk, and load the boot block (very first sector). The boot block is supposed to then boot the kernel.
On a PC you can interrupt the boot process and talk to the bios. On my PC, I must hit F12, then I see a menu presented by the bios. On a sparc, all you get is a command line interface when you talk to OBP. And OBP's prompt is often just "OK>".
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
boot.config
BOOT.CONFIG(5) BSD File Formats Manual BOOT.CONFIG(5)
NAME
boot.config -- Configuration file for the boot blocks
DESCRIPTION
The boot.config file contains options for the FreeBSD boot block code.
When the FreeBSD boot loader runs, it searches the ``a'' slice of the boot partition for a boot.config file (as a result, slices which are
missing an ``a'' partition require user intervention during the boot process). If the boot.config file is found, its contents are used as
the default configuration options for the boot block code and are echoed to the system console.
A valid format of this file is to put BIOS drive number, a controller type, a unit number, a partition, a kernel file name, and any other
valid boot(8) option on a single line, as it is done at the ``boot:'' prompt.
The options related to the boot image selection described below and all the other options available for boot.config are documented in detail
in the boot(8) manual page.
FILES
/boot.config parameters for the boot blocks (optional)
EXAMPLES
The command:
# echo "-P" > /boot.config
will activate the serial console of FreeBSD.
The command:
# echo "1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader" > /boot.config
will instruct the second stage of boot(8) on the first disk to boot with the third boot(8) stage from the second disk.
The command:
# echo "1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader -P" > /boot.config
will do both of the above.
SEE ALSO
boot(8), loader(8)
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>.
BSD
May 13, 2007 BSD