boot — Start the System Kernel or a Stand-alone Program

Synopsis

SPARC Platform
boot [OBP
							names][file][-afV][-D default-file][boot-flags][--]
  [client-program-args]
b [device [(c, u, p)]][-afV][-D default-file][boot-flags][--]
  [client-program-args]
IA Platform
b [file][-f][boot-args]
i

Description

Booting (or bootstrapping) a system is the process of loading and executing a stand-alone program. Typically, the stand-alone program is the operating system kernel (see kernel(1M)), but you can boot any stand-alone program. For example, on a SPARC-based system, you can boot the diagnostic monitor as a stand-alone program.

At boot time, the OpenBoot PROM (OBP), internal, hard-coded software, checks the computer memory, peripherals, and I/O channels ...

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