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authorMichael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-10-07 09:20:32 +0000
committerMichael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-10-07 09:20:32 +0000
commit0f10f23e2ad642adf39b1ceb7fec83f165957a97 (patch)
treeaa0eeadcfb91613ee8b66804063948a32360deff /sys
parent36366d3e530e60882724c4d01a4a51db3a274182 (diff)
cleanup
Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
-rw-r--r--sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.850
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8
index 907a17d7072..fc0a1435d8f 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 1.6 1997/09/20 22:40:35 flipk Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.7 1997/10/07 09:20:31 mickey Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ operations is as follows:
.Bl -enum
.It
Set up a protected mode environment which catches and reports processor
-exceptions, and provides a simple real-mode BIOS interface.
+exceptions, and provides a simple protected-mode BIOS interface.
.It
Probe for console devices, which includes the (default) PC VGA+Keyboard
console (pc0) and up to four serial consoles (com0 through com3) connected
@@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ timeout period has expired.
The following commands are accepted at the
.Nm
prompt:
-.Bl -tag -width machine_diskinfo_boot_
+.Bl -tag -width stty_device_baudrate_____
.It boot Op Ar image Op Fl abcds
Boots kernel image specified by the
.Ar image
with options if any. Image specification consists of a pair
-.Nm device : Nm filename ,
+.Em device : filename ,
either of each maybe omitted (':' is not needed if both),
in which case values from
.Nm
@@ -142,20 +142,21 @@ commands, if any.
.It machine Op Ar subcommand
Issues machine-dependant commands. These are defined for i386 architecture:
.Bl -tag -width diskinfo_
-.It diskinfo
+.It Nm diskinfo
Prints list of hard disks installed on your system including:
BIOS device number, and the BIOS geometry.
+.It Nm regs
+Prints contents of processor registers if compiled with
+.Em DEBUG .
.El
.It ls Op Ar directory
Prints contents of the specified
.Ar directory
in long format including: attributes and file type, owner, group,
size, filename.
-.It regs
-Prints contents of processor registers, if defind for this architecture.
.It reboot
Reboots machine by initiating a warm boot procedure.
-.It set Op varname Op value
+.It set Op Ar varname Op Ar value
If invoked without arguments, prints a list of variables and their values.
If only
.Ar varname
@@ -168,31 +169,35 @@ are both specified, sets that variable to the given value.
Variables include:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -compact -width boothow
-.It addr
+.It Nm addr
Address at wich to load the kernel.
-.It howto
+.It Nm howto
Options to pass to the loaded kernel.
-.It debug
+.It Nm debug
Debug flag if
.Nm
was compiled with DEBUG defined.
-.It device
+.It Nm device
Boot device name (ie fd0a, sd0a).
-.It tty
+.It Nm tty
Active console device name.
-.It image
+.It Nm image
File name containing the kernel image.
.El
-.It stty Op Ar baudrate
-Displays or sets the baudrate for serial console. If the currently
-active console is a serial console, gives you five seconds of pause
+.It stty Op Ar device Op Ar baudrate
+Displays or sets the
+.Ar baudrate
+for a console
+.Ar device .
+If changing speed for the currently
+active console, gives you five seconds of pause
before changing the baud rate to allow you to change your terminal's
-speed to match. If the active console is
+speed to match. If changing speed
.Em not
-a serial console, sets the baudrate value to be used the
+for the active console, sets the baudrate value to be used the
.Em next
-time you switch to a serial console. (The baudrate value is not used
-for the pc0 console.)
+time you switch to a serial console.
+The baudrate value is not used for the pc0 console.
.Pp
The default baudrate if not specifically
set is 9600 baud.
@@ -218,8 +223,7 @@ kernel image
.Pp
RFC 1950 describes the zlib library interface.
.Pp
-The official home page for the version of zlib used in
-.Ox
+The official home page for the version of zlib used in this
operating system see http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/zlib/ .
.Sh BUGS
Well, nobody is perfect.