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25 .\" $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/common/loader.8,v 1.57 2003/06/29 20:57:55 brueffer Exp $
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35 .Nd kernel bootstrapping final stage
41 kernel bootstrapping process.
42 On IA32 (i386) architectures, it is a
45 It is linked statically to
55 directory exist on the boot file system, then
57 is prepended to all relative file names used by
59 This makes it possible to locate all files used by
65 directory on the boot file system.
66 If boot and root are the same file systems, then files used by
70 If boot and root are different file systems, then files used by
74 on the boot file system, which is mounted as
76 on the root file system when the kernel is running.
79 provides a scripting language that can be used to
80 automate tasks, do pre-configuration or assist in recovery
82 This scripting language is roughly divided in
84 The smaller one is a set of commands
85 designed for direct use by the casual user, called "builtin
86 commands" for historical reasons.
87 The main drive behind these commands is user-friendliness.
88 The bigger component is an
90 Forth compatible Forth interpreter based on FICL, by
93 During initialization,
95 will probe for a console and set the
97 variable, or set it to serial console
99 if the previous boot stage used that.
100 Then, devices are probed,
109 is initialized, the builtin words are added to its vocabulary, and
111 is processed if it exists.
112 No disk switching is possible while that file is being read.
113 The inner interpreter
124 is processed if available, and, failing that,
126 is read for historical reasons.
127 These files are processed through the
129 command, which reads all of them into memory before processing them,
130 making disk changes possible.
134 has not been tried, and if
138 (not case sensitive), then an
141 If the system gets past this point,
145 will engage interactive mode.
149 builtin commands take parameters from the command line.
151 the only way to call them from a script is by using
154 If an error condition occurs, an exception will be generated,
155 which can be intercepted using
157 Forth exception handling
159 If not intercepted, an error message will be displayed and
160 the interpreter's state will be reset, emptying the stack and restoring
163 The builtin commands available are:
165 .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
166 .It Ic autoboot Op Ar seconds
167 Proceeds to bootstrap the system after a number of seconds, if not
168 interrupted by the user.
169 Displays a countdown prompt
170 warning the user the system is about to be booted,
171 unless interrupted by a key press.
172 The kernel will be loaded first if necessary.
173 Defaults to 10 seconds.
176 Displays statistics about disk cache usage.
180 .It Ic boot Ar kernelname Op Cm ...
181 .It Ic boot Fl flag Cm ...
182 Immediately proceeds to bootstrap the system, loading the kernel
184 Any flags or arguments are passed to the kernel, but they
185 must precede the kernel name, if a kernel name is provided.
186 Flags are described in
190 The behavior of this builtin is changed if
198 Displays text on the screen.
199 A new line will be printed unless
204 Displays memory usage statistics.
205 For debugging purposes only.
207 .It Ic help Op topic Op subtopic
208 Shows help messages read from
212 will list the topics available.
214 .It Ic include Ar file Op Ar
215 Process script files.
216 Each file, in turn, is completely read into memory,
217 and then each of its lines is passed to the command line interpreter.
218 If any error is returned by the interpreter, the include
219 command aborts immediately, without reading any other files, and
220 returns an error itself (see
227 Loads a kernel, kernel loadable module (kld), or file of opaque
228 contents tagged as being of the type
230 Kernel and modules can be either in a.out or ELF format.
231 Any arguments passed after the name of the file to be loaded
232 will be passed as arguments to that file.
233 Currently, argument passing does not work for the kernel.
239 Displays a listing of files in the directory
241 or the root directory if
246 is specified, file sizes will be shown too.
249 Lists all of the devices from which it may be possible to load modules.
252 is specified, more details are printed.
255 Displays loaded modules.
258 is specified, more details are shown.
260 .It Ic more Ar file Op Ar
261 Display the files specified, with a pause at each
265 .It Ic pnpscan Op Fl v
266 Scans for Plug-and-Play devices.
267 This is not functional at present.
274 Reads a line of input from the terminal, storing it in
277 A timeout can be specified with
279 though it will be canceled at the first key pressed.
280 A prompt may also be displayed through the
285 Immediately reboots the system.
287 .It Ic set Ar variable
288 .It Ic set Ar variable Ns = Ns Ar value
289 Set loader's environment variables.
291 .It Ic show Op Va variable
292 Displays the specified variable's value, or all variables and their
298 Remove all modules from memory.
300 .It Ic unset Va variable
303 from the environment.
309 .Ss BUILTIN ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
312 has actually two different kinds of
315 There are ANS Forth's
316 .Em environmental queries ,
317 and a separate space of environment variables used by builtins, which
318 are not directly available to Forth words.
319 It is the latter type that this section covers.
321 Environment variables can be set and unset through the
325 builtins, and can have their values interactively examined through the
329 Their values can also be accessed as described in
332 Notice that these environment variables are not inherited by any shell
333 after the system has been booted.
335 A few variables are set automatically by
337 Others can affect the behavior of either
339 or the kernel at boot.
340 Some options may require a value,
341 while others define behavior just by being set.
342 Both types of builtin variables are described below.
343 .Bl -tag -width bootfile
345 Unset this to disable automatic loading of the ACPI module.
346 .It Va autoboot_delay
349 will wait before booting.
350 If this variable is not defined,
352 will default to 10 seconds.
358 will be automatically attempted after processing
362 will be processed normally, defaulting to 10 seconds delay.
364 Instructs the kernel to prompt the user for the name of the root device
365 when the kernel is booted.
367 Instructs the kernel to start in the DDB debugger, rather than
368 proceeding to initialize when booted.
370 Selects gdb-remote mode for the kernel debugger by default.
372 Prevents the kernel from initiating a multi-user startup; instead single-user
373 mode will be entered when the kernel has finished device probing.
374 .It Va boot_userconfig
375 Requests that the kernel's interactive device configuration program
376 be run when the kernel is booted.
378 Setting this variable causes extra debugging information to be printed
379 by the kernel during the boot phase.
381 List of semicolon-separated search path for bootable kernels.
383 .Dq Li kernel;kernel.old .
385 Defines the current console.
387 Selects the default device.
388 Syntax for devices is odd.
390 Sets the list of binaries which the kernel will try to run as the initial
392 The first matching binary is used.
394 .Dq Li /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak .
398 if the Forth's current state is interpreting.
400 Define the number of lines on the screen, to be used by the pager.
402 Sets the list of directories which will be searched for modules
403 named in a load command or implicitly required by a dependency.
404 The default value for this variable is
405 .Dq Li /boot;/boot/modules;/;/modules .
407 Sets the number of IDE disks as a workaround for some problems in
408 finding the root disk at boot.
409 This has been deprecated in favor of
416 .Dq Li "\e${interpret}" .
417 .It Va root_disk_unit
418 If the code which detects the disk unit number for the root disk is
419 confused, e.g. by a mix of SCSI and IDE disks, or IDE disks with
420 gaps in the sequence (e.g. no primary slave), the unit number can
421 be forced by setting this variable.
423 By default the value of
425 is used to set the root file system
426 when the kernel is booted.
427 This can be overridden by setting
431 The name of a device where the kernel can save a crash dump in case
433 This automatically sets the
439 Other variables are used to override kernel tunable parameters.
442 tunables are available:
445 Set irqX's destination to the given CPUID,
447 If the specified value is larger than the last CPUID,
448 then the first CPUID will be used.
449 This variable should not be used if IO/APIC support is not compiled
452 Limit the amount of physical memory the system will use.
453 By default the size is in bytes, but the
454 .Cm k , K , m , M , g
458 are also accepted and indicate kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes
460 An invalid suffix will result in the variable being ignored by the
462 .It Va hw.usb.hack_defer_exploration
463 The USB keyboard will sometimes not attach properly unless you set this
465 .It Va kern.emergency_intr_enable
466 Setting this to 1 enables emergency interrupt polling. All interrupt
467 handlers are executed periodically. This mode is very expensive and should
468 only be used to get a system accessible when interrupt routing is
469 otherwise broken. It is primarily used by kernel developers to debug new
471 .It Va kern.emergency_intr_freq
472 Set the polling rate for the emergency interrupt polling code. The
473 default is 10 (hz) to dissuade casual use. If you are doing real work
474 with emergency interrupt polling mode enabled, it is recommended
475 that you use a frequency between 100hz and 300hz.
477 Set the size of a number of statically allocated system tables; see
479 for a description of how to select an appropriate value for this
481 When set, this tunable replaces the value declared in the kernel
482 compile-time configuration file.
483 .It Va kern.ipc.nmbclusters
484 Set the number of mbuf clusters to be allocated.
485 The value cannot be set below the default
486 determined when the kernel was compiled.
489 .It Va kern.ipc.nsfbufs
492 buffers to be allocated.
496 Toggles the mmx optimizations for the bcopy/copyin/copyout routines
497 .It Va kern.vm.kmem.size
498 Sets the size of kernel memory (bytes).
499 This overrides the value determined when the kernel was compiled.
500 .It Va kern.maxswzone
501 Limits the amount of KVM to be used to hold swap
502 meta information, which directly governs the
503 maximum amount of swap the system can support.
504 This value is specified in bytes of KVA space
505 and defaults to around 70MBytes.
507 to not reduce this value such that the actual
508 amount of configured swap exceeds \(12 the
509 kernel-supported swap.
510 The default 70MB allows
511 the kernel to support a maximum of (approximately)
512 14GB of configured swap.
513 Only mess around with
514 this parameter if you need to greatly extend the
515 KVM reservation for other resources such as the
519 .Va VM_SWZONE_SIZE_MAX .
520 .It Va kern.maxbcache
521 Limits the amount of KVM reserved for use by the
522 buffer cache, specified in bytes.
523 The default maximum is 200MB.
524 This parameter is used to
525 prevent the buffer cache from eating too much
526 KVM in large-memory machine configurations.
527 Only mess around with this parameter if you need to
528 greatly extend the KVM reservation for other resources
529 such as the swap zone or
532 the NBUF parameter will override this limit.
534 .Va VM_BCACHE_SIZE_MAX .
535 .It Va machdep.disable_mtrrs
536 Disable the use of i686 MTRRs (x86 only).
537 .It Va net.inet.tcp.tcbhashsize
538 Overrides the compile-time set value of
540 or the preset default of 512.
541 Must be a power of 2.
542 .It Va vfs.root.mountfrom
543 File system type and partition, separated by colon,
544 for kernel root file system.
545 Used with boot-only partition, which is typically mounted on root file system as
547 Example: "hammer:da8s1a"
549 You may not specify devtab labels here but you can specify paths available
550 to devfs such as "hammer:serno/L41JYE0G.s1d".
553 When a builtin command is executed, the rest of the line is taken
554 by it as arguments, and it is processed by a special parser which
555 is not used for regular Forth commands.
557 This special parser applies the following rules to the parsed text:
560 All backslash characters are preprocessed.
563 \eb , \ef , \er , \en and \et are processed as in C.
565 \es is converted to a space.
572 Useful for things like
575 \e0xN and \e0xNN are replaced by the hex N or NN.
577 \eNNN is replaced by the octal NNN
581 \e" , \e' and \e$ will escape these characters, preventing them from
582 receiving special treatment in Step 2, described below.
584 \e\e will be replaced with a single \e .
586 In any other occurrence, backslash will just be removed.
589 Every string between non-escaped quotes or double-quotes will be treated
590 as a single word for the purposes of the remaining steps.
596 with the value of the environment variable
599 Space-delimited arguments are passed to the called builtin command.
600 Spaces can also be escaped through the use of \e\e .
603 An exception to this parsing rule exists, and is described in
604 .Sx BUILTINS AND FORTH .
605 .Ss BUILTINS AND FORTH
606 All builtin words are state-smart, immediate words.
607 If interpreted, they behave exactly as described previously.
608 If they are compiled, though,
609 they extract their arguments from the stack instead of the command line.
611 If compiled, the builtin words expect to find, at execution time, the
612 following parameters on the stack:
613 .D1 Ar addrN lenN ... addr2 len2 addr1 len1 N
616 are strings which will compose the command line that will be parsed
617 into the builtin's arguments.
618 Internally, these strings are concatenated in from 1 to N,
619 with a space put between each one.
621 If no arguments are passed, a 0
623 be passed, even if the builtin accepts no arguments.
625 While this behavior has benefits, it has its trade-offs.
626 If the execution token of a builtin is acquired (through
634 the builtin behavior will depend on the system state
642 \&! This is particularly annoying for programs that want or need to
644 In this case, the use of a proxy is recommended.
646 .Dl : (boot) boot \&;
649 is a Forth interpreter written in C, in the form of a forth
650 virtual machine library that can be called by C functions and vice
655 each line read interactively is then fed to
659 back to execute the builtin words.
666 The words available to
668 can be classified into four groups.
671 Forth standard words, extra
675 words, and the builtin commands;
676 the latter were already described.
679 Forth standard words are listed in the
682 The words falling in the two other groups are described in the
683 following subsections.
685 .Bl -tag -width wid-set-super
693 This is the STRING word set's
700 This is the STRING word set's
710 .Ss DRAGONFLY EXTRA WORDS
711 .Bl -tag -width XXXXXXXX
713 Evaluates the remainder of the input buffer, after having printed it first.
715 Evaluates the remainder of the input buffer under a
721 but without outputting a trailing space.
722 .It Ic fclose Pq Ar fd --
724 .It Ic fkey Pq Ar fd -- char
725 Reads a single character from a file.
726 .It Ic fload Pq Ar fd --
729 .It Ic fopen Pq Ar addr len mode Li -- Ar fd
731 Returns a file descriptor, or \-1 in case of failure.
734 parameter selects whether the file is to be opened for read access, write
737 .Dv O_RDONLY , O_WRONLY ,
742 indicating read only, write only, and read-write access, respectively.
745 .Pq Ar fd addr len -- len'
753 Returns the actual number of bytes read, or -1 in case of error or end of
755 .It Ic heap? Pq -- Ar cells
756 Return the space remaining in the dictionary heap, in cells.
757 This is not related to the heap used by dynamic memory allocation words.
758 .It Ic inb Pq Ar port -- char
759 Reads a byte from a port.
760 .It Ic key Pq -- Ar char
761 Reads a single character from the console.
762 .It Ic key? Pq -- Ar flag
765 if there is a character available to be read from the console.
770 .It Ic outb Pq Ar port char --
771 Writes a byte to a port.
772 .It Ic seconds Pq -- Ar u
773 Returns the number of seconds since midnight.
774 .It Ic tib> Pq -- Ar addr len
775 Returns the remainder of the input buffer as a string on the stack.
776 .It Ic trace! Pq Ar flag --
777 Activates or deactivates tracing.
781 .Ss DRAGONFLY DEFINED ENVIRONMENTAL QUERIES
785 if the architecture is IA32.
786 .It DragonFly_version
788 version at compile time.
793 .Ss SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION
795 .Bl -tag -width /boot/defaults/loader.conf -compact
799 .It Pa /boot/boot.4th
803 .It Pa /boot/boot.conf
805 bootstrapping script.
807 .It Pa /boot/defaults/loader.conf
808 .It Pa /boot/loader.conf
809 .It Pa /boot/loader.conf.local
811 configuration files, as described in
813 .It Pa /boot/loader.rc
815 bootstrapping script.
816 .It Pa /boot/loader.help
819 Contains the help messages.
822 Boot in single user mode:
826 Load kernel's user configuration file.
827 Notice that a kernel must be loaded before any other
829 command is attempted.
830 .Bd -literal -offset indent
832 load -t userconfig_script kernel.conf
835 Load the kernel, a splash screen, and then autoboot in five seconds.
836 .Bd -literal -offset indent
839 load -t splash_image_data chuckrulez.bmp
843 Set the disk unit of the root device to 2, and then boot.
844 This would be needed in a system with two IDE disks,
845 with the second IDE disk hardwired to ad2 instead of ad1.
846 .Bd -literal -offset indent
852 .Bl -tag -width /usr/share/examples/bootforth/X
854 Extra builtin-like words.
858 .It Pa /usr/share/examples/bootforth/
862 The following values are thrown by
864 .Bl -tag -width XXXXX -offset indent
866 Any type of error in the processing of a builtin.
877 Out of interpreting text.
879 Need more text to succeed -- will finish on next run.
895 For the purposes of ANS Forth compliance, loader is an
897 ANS Forth System with Environmental Restrictions, Providing
903 parse, pick, roll, refill, to, value, \e, false, true,
906 compile\&, , erase, nip, tuck
911 from the Core Extensions word set, Providing the Exception Extensions
912 word set, Providing the Locals Extensions word set, Providing the
913 Memory-Allocation Extensions word set, Providing
917 bye, forget, see, words,
924 from the Programming-Tools extension word set, Providing the
925 Search-Order extensions word set.
937 .An Michael Smith Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org .
941 .An John Sadler Aq john_sadler@alum.mit.edu .
947 words will read from the input buffer instead of the console.
948 The latter will be fixed, but the former will not.
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