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+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man-spec
+.\" from a DocBook document.  docbook2man-spec can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "ABOOTCONF" "8" "26 Oktober 2003" "abootconf" ""
+.SH NAME
+abootconf \- Configure the location of the configuration file for the secondary bootloader aboot(8) for Linux/Alpha.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.sp
+\fBabootconf\fR \fB/dev/xxx num\fR
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+\fBabootconf\fR is Copyright (C) 1996 Linus Torvalds, David Mosberger-Tang and Michael Schwingen
+.SH "DESCRIPTIONS"
+.PP
+
+
+\fBabootconf\fR is used to change the partition
+the alpha Linux boot loader \fBaboot\fR(8)
+looks for its configuration file in. The configuration file is stored
+in \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR(5)
+relative to the root of the file system in this partition.
+.PP
+\fBabootconf\fR requires the boot device
+(e.g. \fI/dev/hdb\fR, \fI/dev/sda\fR) and the
+partition
+to be used (e.g. 3). Thus if you want to boot from partition E: on your second
+SCSI disk you would enter
+.PP
+\fBabootconf \fI/dev/sdb 5\fB\fR
+.SH "NOTES"
+.PP
+\fBabootconf\fR is not needed if you are booting
+your alpha system via \fBmilo\fR. 
+.PP
+For each disk one partition can be activated to contain the configuration
+for \fBaboot\fR(8) which is located in
+\fIetc/aboot.conf\fR(5).
+The disk chosen to boot from is selected at
+the SRM prompt as the second argument, e.g.
+.PP
+\fBboot \fIdqa\fB\fR
+.PP
+to boot from your first IDE hard disk. See the HP SRM-Manual and
+\fBaboot\fR(8)
+for details.
+.PP
+\fBaboot\fR(8) can load a kernel from an
+arbitrary partition and can even use a different
+root partition than the one \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR
+belongs to. Hence you would usually
+set up one \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR with all combinations and
+would not require \fBabootconf\fR except for initial
+set up. You can then
+boot the requested
+Linux kernel by giving the appropriate flags at the SRM prompt, e.g. to boot
+the entry labeled 2 you would use
+.PP
+\fBboot \fIdqa -fl "2"\fB\fR
+.PP
+See the HP SRM manual and \fIaboot.conf\fR(5)
+for details.
+.PP
+To show the current setting simply omit the last argument (i.e. the partition
+number).
+.PP
+Note that you have to rerun \fBabootconf\fR if you updated
+\fBaboot\fR.
+.PP
+Strictly speaking \fBabootconf\fR is not necessary as
+you can specify the partition which \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR
+resides on at the SRM-Prompt by prepending the partition number and a colon
+in the flags-parameter, i.e. if \fIetc/aboot.conf\fR
+resided on the fourth partition and you want to boot the entry labeled 2
+you could also issue
+.PP
+\fBboot \fIdqa -fl "4:2"\fB\fR
+.PP
+at the SRM prompt.
+.PP
+Note that this applies to Linux only as VMS, Tru64, *BSD and
+Windows NT each have their own secondary boot loader.
+.PP
+Also note that for initial hard disk setup \fBabootconf\fR
+is no longer needed as \fBswriteboot\fR(8) contains the
+entire functionality of \fBabootconf\fR.
+.SH "AUTHOR"
+.PP
+This man page was written by Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux project but may be used by others.
+.SH "FILES"
+.PP
+\fIetc/aboot.conf\fR
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBaboot\fR(8), \fBswriteboot\fR(8), \fIaboot.conf\fR(5), HP SRM Manual