1 .\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.3 2004/04/03 03:22:30 uwe Exp $
7 .Nd system bootstrapping procedures
10 .Ss Power fail and crash recovery
12 Unfortunately, on most machines, the system can't reboot itself
13 at power-up or after crashes.
14 You might have to restart the system manually.
15 Once the system starts, an automatic consistency check of the file systems
17 and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
21 Typical MIPS based Windows CE Handheld machines
22 attempt to boot Windows CE operating system in its own boot ROM.
25 directly skipping Windows CE.
28 bootloaders are provided as application programs on Windows CE instead.
33 Though the bootloaders are application programs,
34 they blow away the entire Windows CE OS and its settings
35 when the kernel boots successfully.
39 Once running, a familiar window will appear.
40 You can choose the machine type, kernel file location and kernel boot
41 options with a GUI and push the button named
48 The bootloaders have an
51 If you enable this option, the specified kernel will be loaded
52 automatically after a countdown.
56 .Bl -tag -width pbsdboot1.exe -compact
60 gzip-compressed kernel
62 bootloader executable file for Windows CE version 1.01
64 bootloader executable file for Windows CE
66 new bootloader executable file for Windows CE
77 There is no general way to launch a bootloader automatically
78 while a few Windows CE machine provide an