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DESCRIPTION

The program options are:

-V

verbose output (when setting preferences)

-b netbsd

set the boot OS to NetBSD

-b tos

set the boot OS to TOS

-b linux

set the boot OS to Linux

-b systemv

set the boot OS to System V

-b none

set the boot OS to none

-d delay

set the boot delay to delay seconds, where delay is a value between 0 and 255

-l english

set the language to English

-l german

set the language to German

-l french

set the language to French

-l spanish

set the language to Spanish

-l italian

set the language to Italian

-k american

set the keyboard layout to American

-k german

set the keyboard layout to German

-k french

set the keyboard layout to French

-k british

set the keyboard layout to British

-k spanish

set the keyboard layout to Spanish

-k italian

set the keyboard layout to Italian

-k sw f

 

-k swiss french

set the keyboard layout to Swiss (French)

-k sw g

 

-k swiss german

set the keyboard layout to Swiss (German)

-s id

set the SCSI id to id, where id is a value between 0 and 7

-f mmddyy

 

-f ddmmyy

 

-f yymmdd

 

-f yyddmm

set the date format

-1

set the date format to 12 hour clock

-2

set the date format to 24 hour clock

-e sep

set the date format separator to sep

-c colours

set the number of colours - 2, 4, 16, 256 or 65535

-n

set the video mode to NTSC

-p

set the video mode to PAL

-t

set the video mode to TV

-v

set the video mode to VGA

-4

set the video mode to 40 columns

-8

set the video mode to 80 columns

-o

set the video mode to overscan

-O

set the video mode to no overscan

-x

set the video mode to ST compatibility

-X

set the video mode to no ST compatibility

-i

set the video mode to interlace (TV), double line (VGA)

-I

set the video mode to no interlace/double line

All strings can be specified by their shortest abbreviation

If no parameters are specified, bootpref shows the current boot preferences.