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authorBrad Smith <brad@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-27 18:50:54 +0000
committerBrad Smith <brad@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-27 18:50:54 +0000
commitb4388b70cb2403d86cf7d3a0c84fda5a832e1b40 (patch)
treef0b18f0b720ae384f9930fea371c9133128aaaf0 /sys/arch
parentce7338a2b9e4a093509a7bef9dc66563b3c8d4c2 (diff)
better english and fix some spelling mistakes, Ok'd by aaron@
adjucent -> adjacent usefull -> useful
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch')
-rw-r--r--sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.822
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8
index b7a3e478573..f46893212f6 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 1.23 2000/11/22 20:24:09 mickey Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.24 2000/12/27 18:50:53 brad Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ program, followed by the
prompt, which means you are in the interactive mode and may enter commands.
If you do not,
.Nm
-will proceed loading kernel with the current parameters after the
+will proceed to loading the kernel with the current parameters after the
timeout period has expired.
.El
.Sh COMMANDS
@@ -136,12 +136,12 @@ The following commands are accepted at the
prompt:
.Bl -tag -width stty_device_speed_____
.It boot Op Ar image Op Fl abcds
-Boots kernel image specified by
+Boots the kernel image specified by
.Ar image
with any options given.
Image specification consists of a pair
.Em device : filename ,
-either or both of each maybe omitted (':' is not needed if both are omitted),
+either or both can be omitted (':' is not needed if both are omitted),
in which case values from
.Nm
variables will be used.
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Issues machine-dependent commands.
These are defined for i386 architecture:
.Bl -tag -width diskinfo_
.It Nm diskinfo
-Prints list of hard disks installed on your system including:
+Prints a list of hard disks installed on your system including:
BIOS device number, and the BIOS geometry.
.It Nm memory
If used without any arguments this command will print out
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Both size and base address could be specified as octal,
decimal, or hexadecimal numbers, as accepted by the
.Xr strtoul 3
routine.
-Memory segments are not required to be adjucent to each other,
+Memory segments are not required to be adjacent to each other,
the only requirement is that there is real physical memory under
the range added.
For example:
@@ -185,10 +185,10 @@ For example:
machine mem +0x2000000@0x1000000
.Ed
.Pp
-would add 32M of memory right after first 16M.
-The other usefull command would be to winthdraw some range
-of memory form OS usage (as might be wrongfully reported as
-usefull by BIOS):
+would add 32M of memory right after the first 16M.
+The other useful command would be to withdraw a range
+of memory from OS usage (might be wrongfully reported as
+useful by the BIOS).
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
machine mem -0x100000@0xf00000
.Ed
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Prints contents of the specified
in long format including: attributes and file type, owner, group,
size, filename.
.It reboot
-Reboots machine by initiating a warm boot procedure.
+Reboots the machine by initiating a warm boot procedure.
.It set Op Ar varname Op Ar value
If invoked without arguments, prints a list of variables and their values.
If only