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author | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-04-26 18:15:38 +0000 |
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committer | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-04-26 18:15:38 +0000 |
commit | 73748688878b231e077a74a859a3c8504c173ade (patch) | |
tree | b2b687851d01f3cdae528f71a61933c4328d49e0 /sbin | |
parent | 395ecbc33aadcfd826f03b8f660c85a57eb6a23a (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-73748688878b231e077a74a859a3c8504c173ade.zip FreeBSD-src-73748688878b231e077a74a859a3c8504c173ade.tar.gz |
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_i386.8 | 18 |
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. |