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.Dd April 3, 2004 .Dt HPCBOOT 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm hpcboot .Nd load and boot kernel from Windows CE .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm hpcboot.exe .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a program that runs on Windows CE. It loads and executes the specified .Nx kernel. .Nm supports hpcarm, hpcmips, and hpcsh ports.
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Click on the
.Dq Boot
button to start the boot process with selected options.
Click on the
.Dq Cancel
button to exit
.Nm .
.Ss Kernel Tab
On this tab you can select the kernel to boot and options to pass to
the kernel.
l -tag -width "xx" t Directory In this combobox you specify the
.Dq current
directory.
The kernel and miniroot image pathnames are taken to be relative to
this directory.
p
.Nm
can load kernel and miniroot from FAT and UFS filesystems, and via
HTTP.
FIXME: describe the syntax for each of the above
t Kernel In this text field you specify the name of the kernel to load.
Kernels compressed with
.Xr gzip 1
are supported.
t Model Select your H/PC model in this combobox.
t Root File System This group of controls lets you specify the desired root file system
type.
You can select
.Xr wd 4 ,
.Xr sd 4 ,
.Xr md 4 ,
and NFS root.
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If you select
.Xr md 4
memory disk root file system, you should specify the path name of the
file system image in the text field below.
Miniroot images compressed with
.Xr gzip 1
are supported.
t Kernel Boot Flags This group of controls is used to pass boot flags to the kernel.
.El
.Ss Option Tab
On this tab you can specify miscellaneous options that mostly control the
.Nm
program itself.
l -tag -width "xx" t Auto Boot If this option is selected
.Nm
will automatically boot
.Nx
after the specified timeout.
t Reverse Video Tells kernel if it should use the framebuffer in reverse video mode.
t Pause Before Boot If selected, a warning dialog will be presented
.Em before
anything is done, right after the
.Dq Boot
button is pressed.
t Load Debug Info This option currently does nothing.
t Safety Message If selected, a warning dialog will be presented
.Em after
the kernel has been loaded and prepared to be started.
This will be your last chance to cancel the boot.
t Extra Kernel Options In this text field you can specify additional options to pass to the
kernel.
.El
.Ss Console Tab
This tab gets its name from the big text area that
.Nm
uses as the
.Dq console
to report its progress.
l -tag -width "xx" t Save To File If checked, the progress log will be sent to the specified file instead.
t Dq Checkboxes Anonymous The row of 8 checkboxes controls debugging options for
.Nm
itself.
They control the bits of an internal variable, the leftmost checkbox
being the 7th bit.
t Dq Buttons Anonymous The buttons
.Dq a
to
.Dq d
control 4
.Dq hooks
a developer might want to use during
.Nm
development.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kloader 4 ,
.Xr boot 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility first appeared in
.Nx 1.6 .
.Sh BUGS
.Nm
reads the entire kernel image at once,
and requires enough free area on the main memory.
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