document that boot.conf can contain comments;

from tilo stritzky

thanks miod for help with the diff, and who also noted that
leading whitespace gets stripped too;

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8
index 1244209488a..ef64bbb8157 100644
--- a/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8
+++ b/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.60 2015/01/24 20:47:19 naddy Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.61 2015/06/22 18:31:49 jmc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Michael Shalayeff
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 24 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 22 2015 $
 .Dt BOOT 8 i386
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -102,7 +102,12 @@ If the file
 exists on the filesystem
 .Nm
 was loaded from, open and parse it.
-This file may contain any commands
+Lines beginning with the
+.Sq #
+character,
+as well as whitespace at the beginning of lines,
+are ignored.
+The file may contain any commands
 .Nm
 accepts at the interactive prompt.
 Though default settings usually suffice, they can be changed here.