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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000
commitafa9f8ccda18c5ff879f432ae6f0b9a601b992b3 (patch)
tree8356bdc65590449d1a86d64a309c95681f802ad2 /sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.8
parent90e9edeb57b7efe3b1aba0ddeda30341b7e9fd0c (diff)
sbin/ man page fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.8')
-rw-r--r--sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.832
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.8 b/sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.8
index 902dbcec9f6..8f050a286cc 100644
--- a/sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.8
+++ b/sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: boot_sun3.8,v 1.4 1998/07/11 22:46:13 angelos Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: boot_sun3.8,v 1.5 1998/09/17 04:15:01 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: boot_sun3.8,v 1.1 1995/08/08 20:46:20 gwr Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" @(#)boot_sparc.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
-.Dt boot_sun3 8 sun3
+.Dt BOOT_SUN3 8 sun3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm reboot
@@ -47,38 +47,44 @@ bootstrapping procedures
.Op Fl n
.Op Fl q
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Sy Power fail and crash recovery.
+.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
.Xr fsck 8 .
and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
.Pp
-.Sy Cold starts
-A disk-boot program (/usr/mdec/ufsboot) will attempt to load
+.Ss Cold starts
+.Pp
+A disk-boot program
+.Pq Pa /usr/mdec/ufsboot
+will attempt to load
.Pa bsd
-from partition A of the boot device,
+from partition ``a'' of the boot device,
which must currently be an ``sd'' disk.
-Alternatively, network boot program (/usr/mdec/netboot) will load
+Alternatively, the network boot program
+.Pq Pa /usr/mdec/netboot
+will load
.Pa bsd
from the NFS root as determined by the procedure described in
.Xr diskless 8 .
.Pp
The
-.Op Fl s
-flag to the boot loader will being the system up in single-user mode.
+.Fl s
+flag to the bootloader will bring the system up in single-user mode.
The
-.Op Fl a
+.Fl a
flag instructs the system to prompt for the location of the root filesystem
and the primary swap partition.
The
-.Op Fl d
-flag to the boot loader will bring the system up in debug mode.
+.Fl d
+flag to the bootloader will bring the system up in debug mode.
Here it waits for a kernel debugger connect; see
.Xr ddb 8 .
Other flags are currently ignored.
.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 `L1' and `a'
keys at the same time (if the console is a serial port the same is
achieved by sending a `break').
If you do this accidentally you can continue whatever was in progress