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authorschwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-02-12 11:54:28 +0000
committerschwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-02-12 11:54:28 +0000
commitc5dc090a46c30f69944f2e3dbc32e796439b21f7 (patch)
treec2fabadf342a61866f6c27650a3ce431c91d4980
parentin section 8, use DIAGNOSTICS rather than ERRORS, (diff)
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remove questionable and inconsistent .Tn markup,
and mark up Open Firmware variables and sysctl variables using .Va; from Jan Stary <hans at stare dot cz>
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/man8.macppc/boot_macppc.827
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.macppc/boot_macppc.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.macppc/boot_macppc.8
index 54364e7fdd9..3af59fb36ab 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/man8.macppc/boot_macppc.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/man8.macppc/boot_macppc.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: boot_macppc.8,v 1.19 2010/01/03 16:43:45 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: boot_macppc.8,v 1.20 2014/02/12 11:54:28 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)boot_macppc.8
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 3 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 12 2014 $
.Dt BOOT_MACPPC 8 macppc
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -41,23 +41,21 @@ When powered on, after a panic, or if the system is rebooted via
.Xr reboot 8
or
.Xr shutdown 8 ,
-the
-.Tn Open Firmware
-will proceed to its initialization, and will boot an operating system
-if the
-.Em auto-boot?\&
+the Open Firmware will proceed to its initialization,
+and will boot an operating system if the
+.Va auto-boot?\&
variable is set to
.Dq true ,
or will wait for interactive commands otherwise.
.Ss Boot process description
The Apple Open Firmware will normally load the kernel from the device and
filename as instructed by the
-.Em boot-device
+.Va boot-device
and
-.Em boot-file
+.Va boot-file
variables.
If the
-.Em boot-file
+.Va boot-file
variable is empty, the
.Ox
bootloader will look for a kernel named
@@ -99,9 +97,7 @@ The file specification used is of the form:
.Dl promdev:partition/filename options
where:
.Dq promdev
-is an optional
-.Tn Open Firmware
-device name (such as
+is an optional Open Firmware device name (such as
.Dq hd
or
.Dq ide )
@@ -135,7 +131,7 @@ In case of system crashes, the kernel will usually enter the kernel
debugger,
.Xr ddb 4 ,
unless it is not present in the kernel, or it is disabled via the
-.Em ddb.panic
+.Va ddb.panic
sysctl.
Upon leaving ddb, or if ddb was not entered, the kernel will halt the system
if it was still in device configuration phase, or attempt a dump to the
@@ -170,8 +166,7 @@ default system kernel
standalone installation kernel, suitable for disaster recovery
.It Pa /usr/mdec/ofwboot
system bootstrap (usually installed on a stand-alone FAT partition or an
-.Tn Apple
-HFS partition, to be readable by Open Firmware)
+Apple HFS partition, to be readable by Open Firmware)
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ddb 4 ,