1 .\" Copyright (C) 2009 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
2 .\" Copyright 2009 Sony Corp.
4 .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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8 .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
9 .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
10 .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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17 .\" Maintainer's Notes:
18 .\" * For syntax help see the man pages for 'mdoc' and 'mdoc.samples'.
19 .\" * To check syntax use this:
20 .\" 'groff -C -mtty-char -Tutf8 -man petitboot.8'.
21 .\" * To check format use this: 'less petitboot.8'.
30 .Nd The Petitboot bootloader
34 Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on Linux kexec.
35 Petitboot can load Linux kernel and initrd images from any device that
36 can be mounted by Linux, and can also load images from the network
38 HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, SFTP, and TFTP
41 Petitboot looks for bootloader configuration files on mountable devices
42 in the system, and can also be configured to use boot information
47 .Xr petitboot-nc 8 , Xr petitboot-twin 8 , Xr pb-discover 8 , Xr pb-event 8
51 Send bug reports to Geoff Levand <geoff @ infradead.org>