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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-09 13:36:00 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-09 13:36:00 +0000
commit078c2448197a826265f74828b3159d758f1f0ceb (patch)
treeef3b0d7b2b6fcf1328ac8953d9e2abf6431093ea /sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.8
parent3610cb2f5b1eeb5e599fcca418780b43c2f30b6d (diff)
- remove all trailing whitespace
* except when it is escaped with a `\' at the end of the line - fix remaining .Nm usage as well - this is from a patch I received from kwesterback@home.com, who has been working on some scripts for fixing formatting errors in mdoc'd man pages Ok, so there could be a cost/benefit debate with this commit, but since I have the patch we might as well commit it...
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.8')
-rw-r--r--sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.814
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.8
index 0540146c81c..c007bd30cf1 100644
--- a/sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.8
+++ b/sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: biosboot.8,v 1.9 1999/05/23 14:11:28 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: biosboot.8,v 1.10 1999/07/09 13:35:33 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
.\"
-.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
-.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
@@ -48,17 +48,17 @@ In order for
to load the second-stage bootstrap, it has a table inside it which
describes
.Xr boot 8 's
-location.
+location.
.Nm
must be installed by, and have its block table filled in by, the
.Xr installboot 8
-program. As this data is BIOS dependant, you must re-run
+program. As this data is BIOS dependant, you must re-run
.Xr installboot 8
each time you reinstall
.Xr boot 8
or move your disk or software between machines and/or controllers.
.Pp
-When
+When
.Nm
receives control from either the BIOS or the MBR it will print the message:
.Pp
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ has been used in
for the device you are booting from.
.Sh NOTES
The practice of making OpenBSD use the whole disk (ie: having
-.Nm
+.Nm
as the MBR) has been deprecated, and will not work on certain BIOS versions.
There is a lot of strange behaviour with different BIOS's, one of well
known lobotomy cases is that the BIOS does not pass the right boot drive