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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-17 04:15:04 +0000 |
commit | afa9f8ccda18c5ff879f432ae6f0b9a601b992b3 (patch) | |
tree | 8356bdc65590449d1a86d64a309c95681f802ad2 /sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.8 | |
parent | 90e9edeb57b7efe3b1aba0ddeda30341b7e9fd0c (diff) |
sbin/ man page fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.8')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/reboot/boot_sun3.8 | 32 |
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 |