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- .TH "ARCLOAD" "8" "25 November 2007" "" ""
- .SH NAME
- arcload \- bootloader for SGI/ARCS machines
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- \fBarcload\fR \fIdevice\fR
- .SH "DESCRIPTION"
- .PP
- \fBarcload\fR is a bootloader designed to load any Linux kernel on any
- SGI/ARCS machine. It supports booting the kernel from a variety of
- filesystems; currently, the following filesystems are supported:
- \fBext2\fR (\fBext3\fR), \fBfat\fR, \fBiso9660\fR, \fBjfs\fR,
- \fBminix\fR, \fBufs\fR, \fBxfs\fR and the \fB*arcfs\fR
- pseudo-filesystem.
- \fBarcload\fP usually resides in the volume header of a disk with an
- SGI disklabel.
- .SH "USAGE"
- .PP
- \fIdevice\fR is the device name of the disk containing the volume header
- \fBarcload\fR should go into. To use \fBarcload\fR you have to modify
- the following PROM variables:
- .P
- \fIsetenv OSLoader arcload\fR
- .P
- \fIsetenv SystemPartition dksc(c,d,8)\fR
- .P
- \fIsetenv OSLoadPartition dksc(c,d,p)\fR
- .P
- \fIsetenv OSLoadFilename label(option1,option2,...)\fR
- .P
- where \fIc\fR is the ID of the SCSI controller, \fId\fR the SCSI ID
- of the disk \fBarcload\fR resides on and \fIp\fR the partition number
- of the partition \fBarc.cf\fR and the kernels reside on (counting
- from 0). Note that \fBarc.cf\fR and the directory your kernels are in
- (usually / or /boot) have to be on the same partition. On boot,
- \fBarcload\fR looks at the \fIOSLoadFilename\fR PROM variable and
- tries to find a label with the same name in \fBarc.cf\fR.
- \fBarc.cf\fP can reside either in /etc or at the root of the partition pointed
- to by the \fIOSLoadFilename\fP variable.
- .SH "NOTES"
- \fBarcload\fR only loads ELF kernels.
- .SH "FILES"
- .BR /arc.cf
- \fBarcload\fR's configuration file
- .P
- .BR /usr/share/doc/arcload/examples
- configuration file examples
- .P
- .BR /usr/share/doc/arcload/README.Debian
- some notes about arcload for Debian
- .PP
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .PP
- dvhtool(1)
- .SH "AUTHORS"
- ARCLoad was written by Stanislaw Skowronek
- <skylark@linux-mips.org>. This manual page was written by Julien
- BLACHE <jblache@debian.org> for the Debian Project (but may be used by
- others), based on the arcboot(8) manpage.
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