| .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. |
