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- .so \*(]ltmac.sprite
- .HS makeboot admin
- .BS
- '\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
- .SH NAME
- makeboot \- Strips a.out header off of bootstrap program
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- \fBmakeboot\fR [\fIoptions\fR] \fIbootFile [targetBootFile]\fR
- .SH OPTIONS
- .IP "\fB\-h \fIhostname\fR" 15
- Creates a boot file under the internet host address of the named host.
- .IP "\fB\-help\fR" 15
- Print a summary of the command-line options and exit.
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- \fBMakeboot\fP copies a boot program and removes the a.out header
- as it does so. The boot program is loaded by the PROM into memory
- and execution begins at word 0, so the a.out header must be removed.
- This program also knows where the boot program ought to be installed,
- so without the \fItargetBootFile\fP argument it will do the right thing.
- Typically \fBmakeboot\fP is used to install network boot programs.
- These are loaded by the PROM using TFTP, which looks in the
- standard boot directory.
-
- .SH SEE ALSO
- installboot, which copies a disk boot program onto the disk
- header and strips the a.out header as it does so.
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- .SH FILES
- /sprite/boot - Directory containing per-machine TFTP boot files.
- These are typically symbolic links to machine-dependent boot programs.
- .br
- /sprite/boot.$MACHINE - Home for the machine dependent boot programs.
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- .SH KEYWORDS
- boot, a.out
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