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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-01-29 16:53:38 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-01-29 16:53:38 +0000
commita5646539ef5b30683e2a4d2bfd94cdd46e6e4117 (patch)
tree882e8decb5a54306414852dc964306f98a4e52cb /sys
parent874fc392ee707c2600369882cacd53fbc870661b (diff)
typos;
many tweaks by millert@ (thanks) thanks mpech@ for help with adduser(8) ok millert@
Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
-rw-r--r--sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.810
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.8
index 7f41dd76971..0185bb80ed0 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 1.14 2002/03/12 15:24:05 mickey Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: biosboot.8,v 1.15 2003/01/29 16:53:37 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ i386-specific first-stage system bootstrap
This small program (roughly 512 bytes of code) is responsible for
loading the second stage
.Xr boot 8
-program, which in turn, will load the kernel.
+program, which in turn will load the kernel.
It takes no input or options directly.
.Pp
In order for
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ receives control from either the BIOS or the MBR it will print the message:
.Dl loading /boot
.Pp
followed by a dot for every successfully loaded block,
-and then put cursor on the next line right before switching into
+and then put the cursor on the next line right before switching into
protected mode and transferring control to the just loaded /boot program.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
Diagnostics consist of two error messages:
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ for the device you are booting from.
The practice of making OpenBSD use the whole disk (ie: having
.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
+There is a lot of strange behaviour with different BIOSes; one well
+known lobotomy case is that the BIOS does not pass the right boot drive
number to the
.Nm
program. This is one of the main reasons that having