From 7cdfa761d7b490a9e2c4ff2b3a103ef00c4969cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Shalayeff Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:57:48 +0000 Subject: add a section on th4e isl interaction --- share/man/man8/man8.hppa/boot_hppa.8 | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'share') diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.hppa/boot_hppa.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.hppa/boot_hppa.8 index 1d242ed524a..e0200becdd8 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/man8.hppa/boot_hppa.8 +++ b/share/man/man8/man8.hppa/boot_hppa.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: boot_hppa.8,v 1.4 2003/06/06 19:28:06 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: boot_hppa.8,v 1.5 2003/06/19 00:57:47 mickey Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2002, Miodrag Vallat. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -66,6 +66,33 @@ escape key during the selftests, or when prompted to do so to abort the current operation, unless the PDC has been configured in .Dq secure mode . .\" +.Ss ISL interaction +.Dq ISL +stands for +.Dq Initial System Loader +and is the +.Xr boot 8 +program in +.Ox . +On all versions of the PDC except for the 712 models the +.Dq boot +command (see below) will be followed by the question: +.Dq Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> +where a positive answer will invoke an interactive prompt +in the +.Xr boot 8 +program later and negative thus suppress such. +Cancelation will abort the boot process. +.Pp +On the 712 models firmware an additional +.Dq isl +argument should be given to the +.Dq boot +command to invoke the +.Xr boot 8 +interactive prompt. +With the default behaviour being a non-interactive boot process. +.\" .Ss Old PDC operation PDC ROM v1.4 and below are easily recognizable, as they will start with a text banner. -- cgit v1.2.3