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author | Michael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-10-07 09:20:32 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-10-07 09:20:32 +0000 |
commit | 0f10f23e2ad642adf39b1ceb7fec83f165957a97 (patch) | |
tree | aa0eeadcfb91613ee8b66804063948a32360deff /sys | |
parent | 36366d3e530e60882724c4d01a4a51db3a274182 (diff) |
cleanup
Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
-rw-r--r-- | sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8 | 50 |
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. |