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authorjhawk <jhawk@NetBSD.org>2000-09-30 20:27:01 +0000
committerjhawk <jhawk@NetBSD.org>2000-09-30 20:27:01 +0000
commit8423ae243a3de24d16fc23ce03fc92a2dce4e9bb (patch)
tree7fa70010578e66e12ef65026ba0a0b11fc3c74ca
parent05b7923a906625e998b786f81f79c6e81960cb05 (diff)
BUGS updates:
Observe this manpage documents biosboot, which is not i386-specific Note failure to parse filename after boot options.
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.817
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.8
index 6159c800467..bd3bbca8542 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.16 2000/09/28 16:18:42 hubertf Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.17 2000/09/30 20:27:01 jhawk Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)boot_i386.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
-.Dd May 12, 2000
+.Dd August 31, 2000
.Dt BOOT 8 i386
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -234,6 +234,11 @@ boot block (written by
.Xr reboot 8 ,
.Xr shutdown 8
.Sh BUGS
+This manual page documents the
+.Pa biosboot
+interface, which is used by ports other than
+.Nx Ns /i386 .
+.Pp
Hard disks are always accessed by BIOS functions. Unit numbers are
BIOS device numbers which might differ from numbering in the
.Nx
@@ -251,3 +256,11 @@ is derived from the
field of the
.Nx
disklabel (if it is a hard disk).
+.Pp
+Any
+.Ar filename
+specified after the boot options, e.g.:
+.Bd -unfilled -offset indent -compact
+.Cm boot -d netbsd.test
+.Ed
+is ignored, and the default kernel is booted.