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authorMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2024-11-05 09:45:23 +0000
committerMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2024-11-05 09:45:23 +0000
commitc11b73b1ed888eae3d562f99aa91b92c21af720f (patch)
treef7e1416fc07325cc57e8ac4d63a18db67ca78691 /sys/arch
parentc36cdb88f9872b34118379c6d8a87a0ed0c4e5c4 (diff)
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@, file forgotten in previous commit
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch')
-rw-r--r--sys/arch/macppc/stand/boot.87
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/macppc/stand/boot.8 b/sys/arch/macppc/stand/boot.8
index 5f385f6cf40..d1bd74f4d0f 100644
--- a/sys/arch/macppc/stand/boot.8
+++ b/sys/arch/macppc/stand/boot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.6 2023/02/23 19:48:22 miod Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.7 2024/11/05 09:45:22 miod Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 23 2023 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2024 $
.Dt BOOT 8 macppc
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ 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: