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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-06-22 18:31:50 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-06-22 18:31:50 +0000
commitb25f077a9359f739876ecddad42e647692465ec4 (patch)
tree9eca65ad9ffc5426847253638537b507f7ee6783 /sys/arch/landisk/stand/boot/boot.8
parent73d7dfa55922e93aeb1478f318d6881fec1ee04a (diff)
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;
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch/landisk/stand/boot/boot.8')
-rw-r--r--sys/arch/landisk/stand/boot/boot.811
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/landisk/stand/boot/boot.8 b/sys/arch/landisk/stand/boot/boot.8
index f865aa0d366..44260173e73 100644
--- a/sys/arch/landisk/stand/boot/boot.8
+++ b/sys/arch/landisk/stand/boot/boot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.5 2015/01/24 20:47:19 naddy Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.6 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 landisk
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -75,7 +75,12 @@ 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.