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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_vax.8
parent90e9edeb57b7efe3b1aba0ddeda30341b7e9fd0c (diff)
sbin/ man page fixes
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diff --git a/sbin/reboot/boot_vax.8 b/sbin/reboot/boot_vax.8
index f7e91dc89a9..beca7f8d00d 100644
--- a/sbin/reboot/boot_vax.8
+++ b/sbin/reboot/boot_vax.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: boot_vax.8,v 1.4 1998/07/11 22:46:14 angelos Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: boot_vax.8,v 1.5 1998/09/17 04:15:01 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: boot_vax.8,v 1.3 1995/04/23 10:33:39 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -35,25 +35,27 @@
.\" @(#)boot_vax.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
-.Dt boot_vax 8 vax
+.Dt BOOT_VAX 8 vax
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm boot
.Nd
system bootstrapping procedures
.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.
-Provided the auto-restart is enabled on the machine front panel,
+Provided the auto-restart is enabled on the machine's front panel,
an automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed,
and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
.Pp
-.Sy Cold starts.
+.Ss Cold starts
+.Pp
These are processor-type dependent.
On an 11/780, there are two floppy files for each disk controller,
both of which cause boots from unit 0 of the root file system
of a controller located on mba0 or uba0.
-One gives a single user shell, while the other invokes the multi-user
+One gives a single-user shell, while the other invokes the multi-user
automatic reboot.
Thus these files are
.Tn HPS
@@ -124,9 +126,9 @@ The current encoding has a historical basis, and is shown in the following
table:
.Pp
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
-bits usage
-0-7 boot device type (the device major number)
-8-15 disk partition
+bits usage
+0-7 boot device type (the device major number)
+8-15 disk partition
16-19 drive unit
20-23 controller number
24-27 adaptor number (UNIBUS or MASSBUS as appropriate)
@@ -147,14 +149,14 @@ may specify
.Li \&>>>B/ Ns Fl n No DMA0
.Ed
.Pp
-where, giving a
+where, giving an
.Ar n
of 1 causes the boot program
to ask for the name of the system to be bootstrapped,
-giving a
+giving an
.Ar n
-of 2 causes the boot program to come up single
-user, and a
+of 2 causes the boot program to come up single-user,
+and an
.Ar n
of 3 causes both of these actions to occur.
The ``DM'' specifies RK07, the ``A'' represents the adaptor number
@@ -181,8 +183,10 @@ to autoboot or to halt.
When halted, the processor may be booted using the same syntax
as on the 11/750.
.Pp
-The 11/750 boot procedure uses the boot roms to load block 0 off of
-the specified device. The /usr/mdec directory contains a number
+The 11/750 boot procedure uses the boot ROMs to load block 0 off of
+the specified device. The
+.Pa /usr/mdec
+directory contains a number
of bootstrap programs for the various disks which should be placed
in a new pack by
.Xr disklabel 8 .
@@ -199,7 +203,7 @@ disk such
as the RD53.
.Pp
On any processor, the
-.Em boot
+.Nm boot
program
finds the corresponding file on the given device
.Pf ( Pa bsd
@@ -261,7 +265,7 @@ of unit 0 of a
.Tn MASSBUS
disk, type
.Ql hp(0,0)bsd
-to the boot prompt;
+at the boot prompt;
.Ql hp(2,0,1,0)bsd
would specify drive 1 on
.Tn MASSBUS
@@ -292,7 +296,7 @@ at
.Pp
On an 11/750 with patchable control store,
microcode patches will be installed by
-.Em boot
+.Nm boot
if the file
.Pa psc750.bin
exists in the root of the filesystem from which the system is booted.