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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-11-11 22:20:02 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-11-11 22:20:02 +0000 |
commit | db5b45ba844aac723eece65f35e9da8d332ac7eb (patch) | |
tree | 6ea70bb0b6b4397bf2a59d1e33a2768c63838812 /sbin/reboot/boot_sparc.8 | |
parent | fb32fc8a9d06e96ad5c62d55537fe2ffd3a1f101 (diff) |
more `` '' -> .Dq sillyness; remove redundant .Pp macros; other misc fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/reboot/boot_sparc.8')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/reboot/boot_sparc.8 | 58 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/reboot/boot_sparc.8 b/sbin/reboot/boot_sparc.8 index d92e7f01c1f..506c2f01774 100644 --- a/sbin/reboot/boot_sparc.8 +++ b/sbin/reboot/boot_sparc.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: boot_sparc.8,v 1.6 1998/09/17 04:15:00 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: boot_sparc.8,v 1.7 1998/11/11 22:20:00 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: boot_sparc.8,v 1.4 1995/04/25 11:37:25 pk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ bootstrapping procedures .Op Fl q .Sh DESCRIPTION .Ss Power fail and crash recovery -.Pp Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes. An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed (as described in @@ -56,13 +55,16 @@ An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations. .Pp .Ss Cold starts -.Pp The SPARC system currently uses the SunOS bootstrap loaders. This will be changed in a future version of the system. The SunOS boot will attempt to load .Pa bsd -from partition ``a'' of the boot device, -which must currently be an ``sd'' disk. +from partition +.Dq a +of the boot device, +which must currently be an +.Dq sd +disk. .Pp The .Fl s @@ -78,30 +80,52 @@ and the primary swap partition. .\".Xr kgdb 8 . Other flags are currently ignored. .Pp -The SPARC boot ROM comes in two flavours: an ``old-style'' ROM is used in -sun4 machines, while a ``new-style'' ROM can be found on sun4c and sun4m models. -The ``new-style'' SPARC boot ROM is a full-featured Forth system with emacs -key bindings. It can be put in ``old-style'' user-interface compatibility -mode (in which case it shows a simple `>' prompt), but this is essentially -useless. However, by default the ROM runs in old-mode; to enter new-mode type `n'. -The ROM then shows a Forth-style `ok' prompt. It is recommended to have -the ROM always start in its native ``new-style'' mode. Utter the following +The SPARC boot ROM comes in two flavours: an +.Dq old-style +ROM is used in +sun4 machines, while a +.Dq new-style +ROM can be found on sun4c and sun4m models. +The +.Dq new-style +SPARC boot ROM is a full-featured Forth system with emacs +key bindings. It can be put in +.Dq old-style +user-interface compatibility +mode (in which case it shows a simple +.Dq \&> +prompt), but this is essentially +useless. However, by default the ROM runs in old-mode; to enter new-mode type +.Dq n . +The ROM then shows a Forth-style +.Dq ok +prompt. It is recommended to have +the ROM always start in its native +.Dq new-style +mode. Utter the following incantation in new-mode to force the ROM to always start in new-mode: .Pp .Em \ ok setenv sunmon-compat? false .Pp -The ROM will normally load the kernel from "sd(0,0,0)bsd". To change the +The ROM will normally load the kernel from +.Dq sd(0,0,0)bsd . +To change the default so that OpenBSD will be loaded, type the following: .Pp .Em \ ok setenv boot-from sd(0,0,0)bsd .Pp -At any time you can break back to the ROM by pressing the `L1' and `a' +At any time you can break back to the ROM by pressing the +.Dq L1 +and +.Dq a keys at the same time (if the console is a serial port the same is -achieved by sending a `break'). +achieved by sending a +.Dq break ) . If you do this accidentally you can continue whatever was in progress -by typing `go'. +by typing +.Dq go . .Pp .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /bsdxx -compact |