Little improvements.

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iru 2011-10-20 13:07:59 -02:00
parent b697e8655a
commit b0c53264fe
1 changed files with 26 additions and 20 deletions

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@ -22,17 +22,21 @@ mounts
.B bootfs.paq,
a compressed filesystem contained in
.IR root (3),
setups the rc enviroment and execs
.I bootrc
sets up the
.IR rc (1)
environment and executes
.I /boot/bootrc
passing on its arguments.
.I Bootrc connects to the file server that will serve the
root, performs any authentication needed to
connect to that server, and
.IR exec (2)'s
the
.I Bootrc
connects to the file server that will serve the root, performs any
authentication needed to connect to that server, and executes the
.IR init (8)
program.
It is started by the kernel, never run directly by the user. See
program. Both
.I boot
and
.I bootrc
are started by the kernel, never run directly by the user.
See
.IR booting (8)
for information about the process of loading the kernel (and
.IR boot )
@ -61,8 +65,8 @@ Machines that boot directly from ROM (that is, most machines other than PCs)
pass the boot line given to the ROM directly to
.IR boot .
.PP
On the PC, each line in the DOS file
.B plan9.ini
On the PC, each line in the file
.IR plan9.ini (8)
of the form
.IB name = value
is passed to the boot program as an environment
@ -115,9 +119,9 @@ The other interactions depend on whether the system
is a
terminal or a CPU server.
.SS Terminal
The terminal must have a
A terminal must have a
.I username
to set.
set.
If none is specified with the
.B -u
option,
@ -160,7 +164,9 @@ If the environment variable
.B init
is set (via
.IR plan9.ini (8)),
it is used as a command line to exec instead.
it is used as an argument to
.IR exec (2)
instead.
.PP
If the
.I bootfs.paq
@ -180,14 +186,14 @@ that caches all remote accesses on the local partition.
The
.B -f
flag commands
.B cfs
.IR cfs (4)
to reformat the cache partition.
.SS CPU Servers
The user owning devices and console processes on CPU servers
and that user's domain and encryption key are
read from NVRAM on all machines except PC's.
PC's keep the information in the disk partition
.BI /dev/sd XX /nvram\f1.
read from NVRAM on all machines except PCs.
PCs keep the information in the disk partition
.BI /dev/sd XX /nvram.
If a
.B -k
option is given or if no stored information is found
@ -226,7 +232,7 @@ The
variables
.B fs
and
.B auth
.BR auth
override the file server and authentication server IP addresses
obtained (if any) from DHCP during
.IR ipconfig (8).