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authorphk <phk@FreeBSD.org>1998-04-26 18:15:38 +0000
committerphk <phk@FreeBSD.org>1998-04-26 18:15:38 +0000
commit73748688878b231e077a74a859a3c8504c173ade (patch)
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parent395ecbc33aadcfd826f03b8f660c85a57eb6a23a (diff)
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say a few words about the -b option.
Reviewed by: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r--sbin/reboot/boot_i386.818
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8 b/sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8
index 4d68bff..389727a 100644
--- a/sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8
+++ b/sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)boot_i386.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
-.\" $Id: boot_i386.8,v 1.9 1998/02/10 00:17:44 msmith Exp $
+.\" $Id: boot_i386.8,v 1.10 1998/03/23 06:36:57 danny Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
.Dt BOOT 8 i386
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ prompt. At this time, the following input will be accepted:
.It \&?
Give a short listing of the files in the root directory of the default
boot device, as a hint about available boot files.
-.It Op bios_drive:interface(unit,part) Op filename Op Fl aCcDdghPrsv
+.It Op bios_drive:interface(unit,part) Op filename Op Fl abCcDdghPrsv
Specify boot file and flags.
.Bl -tag -width 10x -compact
.It bios_drive
@@ -124,12 +124,19 @@ The pathname of the file to boot (relative to the root directory
on the specified partition). Defaults to
.Pa kernel .
Symbolic links are not supported (hard links are).
-.It Fl acCdDghPrsv
+.It Fl abcCdDghPrsv
Boot flags:
.Bl -tag -width "-CXX" -compact
.It Fl a
during kernel initialization,
ask for the device to mount as as the root file system.
+.It Fl b
+puts the screen in 800x600x4 mode (Vesa mode 0x102).
+This is useful on laptops whose graphics
+chips are not supported by XFree86 by the XF86_VGA16 server.
+You need to have a 8x16 font compiled into syscons or loaded as
+part of boot-strap if you actually want to see anything on
+the screen.
.It Fl C
boot from CDROM.
.It Fl c
@@ -192,6 +199,7 @@ be verbose during device probing (and later).
.Pp
You may put a BIOS drive number, a controller type, a unit number,
a partition, a kernel file name and the
+.Fl b ,
.Fl D,
.Fl h
or
@@ -232,5 +240,9 @@ The disklabel format used by this version of
is quite
different from that of other architectures.
.Pp
+The kernel's output is invisible (nothing but the cursor can be seen) when
+.Fl b
+is used unless a font has been compiled into the kernel.
+.Pp
The boot flags are not very self-explanatory, and the alphabet has
too few characters to implement every potentially useful boot option.
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