mention auto-boot switch; deraadt@ ok

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/distrib/notes/sparc/prep b/distrib/notes/sparc/prep
index a94fdb3287a..d2536a82786 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/sparc/prep
+++ b/distrib/notes/sparc/prep
@@ -66,6 +66,17 @@ Make sure that the ROM security modes are disabled:
 
     ok setenv security-mode none
 
+To disable automatic boot use the following command:
+
+    ok setenv auto-boot? false
+
+and then to enable it later use:
+
+    ok setenv auto-boot? true
+
+or on an installed system use the eeprom(8) commmand:
+
+    # eeprom 'auto-boot?=true'
 
 Please note that while OpenBSD and SunOS have a reasonable degree of
 compatibility between disk labels and filesystems, there are some problems
diff --git a/distrib/notes/sparc64/prep b/distrib/notes/sparc64/prep
index eeb1d0bf36e..9d076bb4048 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/sparc64/prep
+++ b/distrib/notes/sparc64/prep
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl	$OpenBSD: prep,v 1.16 2004/03/17 09:25:10 jmc Exp $
+dnl	$OpenBSD: prep,v 1.17 2005/03/18 19:37:07 mickey Exp $
 If your UltraSPARC machine is somewhat old, it might need a firmware update
 before it can be used under OpenBSD. You are advised to try to install
 OpenBSD first; if it can't boot or fails mysteriously, you might need to
@@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ disk:f.  Make sure you reset the boot device to its default value:
 will work for most systems. This can be adapted if you've multiple
 systems installed and know what you're doing.
 
+To disable automatic boot use the following command:
+
+    ok setenv auto-boot? false
+
+and then to enable it later use:
+
+    ok setenv auto-boot? true
+
+or on an installed system use the eeprom(8) commmand:
+
+    # eeprom 'auto-boot?=true'
 
 Updating your firmware:
 -----------------------