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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-11 22:20:02 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-11 22:20:02 +0000
commitdb5b45ba844aac723eece65f35e9da8d332ac7eb (patch)
tree6ea70bb0b6b4397bf2a59d1e33a2768c63838812 /sbin/reboot/boot_sparc.8
parentfb32fc8a9d06e96ad5c62d55537fe2ffd3a1f101 (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.858
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