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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-01-29 16:53:38 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-01-29 16:53:38 +0000 |
commit | a5646539ef5b30683e2a4d2bfd94cdd46e6e4117 (patch) | |
tree | 882e8decb5a54306414852dc964306f98a4e52cb /sys | |
parent | 874fc392ee707c2600369882cacd53fbc870661b (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.8 | 10 |
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 |