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35 .Nd set NVRAM boot preference
63 views and sets the NVRAM boot preferences.
65 The program options are:
68 verbose output (when setting preferences)
73 set the boot OS to TOS
75 set the boot OS to Linux
77 set the boot OS to System V
79 set the boot OS to none
85 is a value between 0 and 255
87 set the language to English
89 set the language to German
91 set the language to French
93 set the language to Spanish
95 set the language to Italian
97 set the keyboard layout to American
99 set the keyboard layout to German
101 set the keyboard layout to French
103 set the keyboard layout to British
105 set the keyboard layout to Spanish
107 set the keyboard layout to Italian
109 .It Fl k Ar swiss french
110 set the keyboard layout to Swiss (French)
112 .It Fl k Ar swiss german
113 set the keyboard layout to Swiss (German)
119 is a value between 0 and 7
126 set the date format to 12 hour clock
128 set the date format to 24 hour clock
130 set the date format separator to
135 - 2, 4, 16, 256 or 65535
137 set the video mode to
140 set the video mode to
143 set the video mode to
146 set the video mode to
149 set the video mode to
152 set the video mode to
155 set the video mode to
158 set the video mode to
161 set the video mode to
164 set the video mode to
165 .Ar no ST compatibility
167 set the video mode to
173 set the video mode to
174 .Ar no interlace/double line
177 All strings can be specified by their shortest abbreviation
179 If no parameters are specified,
181 shows the current boot preferences.
187 command first appeared in
192 Setting the boot OS to
194 will cause the machine not to boot from the hard disk.
196 The majority of the parameters are not used under