The MI boot code used to have an infinite loop trying to boot the kernel,

which got limited to at most two tries 26 years ago for the 2.3 release,
but the documentation was never updated to match this change. Do it now.

Reported by Nir Lichtman on tech@

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sys/arch/alpha/stand/nboot/boot.8 b/sys/arch/alpha/stand/nboot/boot.8
index 9e8e970f553..b879756ea7c 100644
--- a/sys/arch/alpha/stand/nboot/boot.8
+++ b/sys/arch/alpha/stand/nboot/boot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.2 2023/03/14 06:55:31 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.3 2024/11/05 09:42:48 miod Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Michael Shalayeff
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 14 2023 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2024 $
 .Dt BOOT 8 alpha
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ If time expires, the kernel will be loaded according to
 the current variable settings (see the
 .Ic set
 command).
-Each time a kernel load fails, the timeout is increased by one second.
+If the kernel load fails, a second attempt is made with the timeout increased
+by one second.
 The sequence of
 .Nm
 operations is as follows: