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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2005-06-14 08:49:14 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2005-06-14 08:49:14 +0000
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Improved markup, fixes some spelling and grammar.
Approved by: re (blanket)
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/boot')
-rw-r--r--sys/boot/common/loader.825
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/sys/boot/common/loader.8 b/sys/boot/common/loader.8
index fc9b5c8..13331c1 100644
--- a/sys/boot/common/loader.8
+++ b/sys/boot/common/loader.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd October 15, 2004
+.Dd May 27, 2005
.Dt LOADER 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ During initialization,
will probe for a console and set the
.Va console
variable, or set it to serial console
-.Pq Dq comconsole
+.Pq Dq Li comconsole
if the previous boot stage used that.
If multiple consoles are selected, they will be listed separated by spaces.
Then, devices are probed,
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ At this point, if an
has not been tried, and if
.Va autoboot_delay
is not set to
-.Dq NO
+.Dq Li NO
(not case sensitive), then an
.Ic autoboot
will be tried.
@@ -115,13 +115,14 @@ will engage interactive mode.
Please note that historically even when
.Va autoboot_delay
is set to
-.Dq 0
+.Dq Li 0
user will be able to interrupt autoboot process by pressing some key
-on the console while kernel and modules are being loaded. In some
+on the console while kernel and modules are being loaded.
+In some
cases such behaviour may be undesirable, to prevent it set
.Va autoboot_delay
to
-.Dq -1 ,
+.Dq Li -1 ,
in this case
.Nm
will engage interactive mode only if
@@ -337,7 +338,7 @@ If this variable is not defined,
will default to 10 seconds.
.Pp
If set to
-.Dq NO ,
+.Dq Li NO ,
no
.Ic autoboot
will be automatically attempted after processing
@@ -347,18 +348,18 @@ though explicit
will be processed normally, defaulting to 10 seconds delay.
.Pp
If set to
-.Dq 0
-no delay will inserted, but user still will be able to interrupt
+.Dq Li 0 ,
+no delay will be inserted, but user still will be able to interrupt
.Ic autoboot
process and escape into the interactive mode by pressing some key
on the console while kernel and
modules are being loaded.
.Pp
If set to
-.Dq -1
-no delay will inserted and
+.Dq Li -1 ,
+no delay will be inserted and
.Nm
-will engange interactive mode only if
+will engage interactive mode only if
.Ic autoboot
has failed for some reason.
.It Va boot_askname
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