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Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch/sparc64')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 b/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 index 9c890e9a0d8..01e15fc4868 100644 --- a/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 +++ b/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: installboot.8,v 1.3 2001/10/04 23:58:55 miod Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: installboot.8,v 1.4 2003/02/07 07:45:13 jmc Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.1 1995/09/30 21:32:14 pk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Paul Kranenburg @@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ .Ar device .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm installboot -prepares a FFS filesystem partition for boot-strapping from the PROM. +prepares an FFS filesystem partition for boot-strapping from the PROM. The sparc bootblocks are split into two parts: a small first-stage program that is written into the superblock area in a partition .Po and hence is limited in size to SBSIZE - DEV_BSIZE bytes .Pc , and a second-stage program that resides in the filesystem proper. -The first-stage program is loaded into memory by the PROM. After it receiving +The first-stage program is loaded into memory by the PROM. After it receives control, it loads the second stage program .Ar ofwboot from the filesystem. |