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Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8 | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot.8 index b7a3e478573..f46893212f6 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 1.23 2000/11/22 20:24:09 mickey Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.24 2000/12/27 18:50:53 brad Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Michael Shalayeff .\" All rights reserved. @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ program, followed by the prompt, which means you are in the interactive mode and may enter commands. If you do not, .Nm -will proceed loading kernel with the current parameters after the +will proceed to loading the kernel with the current parameters after the timeout period has expired. .El .Sh COMMANDS @@ -136,12 +136,12 @@ The following commands are accepted at the prompt: .Bl -tag -width stty_device_speed_____ .It boot Op Ar image Op Fl abcds -Boots kernel image specified by +Boots the kernel image specified by .Ar image with any options given. Image specification consists of a pair .Em device : filename , -either or both of each maybe omitted (':' is not needed if both are omitted), +either or both can be omitted (':' is not needed if both are omitted), in which case values from .Nm variables will be used. @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Issues machine-dependent commands. These are defined for i386 architecture: .Bl -tag -width diskinfo_ .It Nm diskinfo -Prints list of hard disks installed on your system including: +Prints a list of hard disks installed on your system including: BIOS device number, and the BIOS geometry. .It Nm memory If used without any arguments this command will print out @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Both size and base address could be specified as octal, decimal, or hexadecimal numbers, as accepted by the .Xr strtoul 3 routine. -Memory segments are not required to be adjucent to each other, +Memory segments are not required to be adjacent to each other, the only requirement is that there is real physical memory under the range added. For example: @@ -185,10 +185,10 @@ For example: machine mem +0x2000000@0x1000000 .Ed .Pp -would add 32M of memory right after first 16M. -The other usefull command would be to winthdraw some range -of memory form OS usage (as might be wrongfully reported as -usefull by BIOS): +would add 32M of memory right after the first 16M. +The other useful command would be to withdraw a range +of memory from OS usage (might be wrongfully reported as +useful by the BIOS). .Bd -unfilled -offset indent machine mem -0x100000@0xf00000 .Ed @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Prints contents of the specified in long format including: attributes and file type, owner, group, size, filename. .It reboot -Reboots machine by initiating a warm boot procedure. +Reboots the machine by initiating a warm boot procedure. .It set Op Ar varname Op Ar value If invoked without arguments, prints a list of variables and their values. If only |