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authorrnordier <rnordier@FreeBSD.org>1999-02-26 14:57:17 +0000
committerrnordier <rnordier@FreeBSD.org>1999-02-26 14:57:17 +0000
commit1e2759ad39aaac6ac5ae052dc0b048fff233632d (patch)
tree71e32bc88445568c6239810c6d83a1ffb3bf89ed /usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.8
parentc17b4c476c5727a6c2b93447d3ea72b73468846a (diff)
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Finish implementing "setdrv" option. This is intended to be used
(with care) in those instances where boot0 is not passed the correct drive number by the PC BIOS. (The symptoms are a "F5 Drive 0" line, even though the current drive is drive 0.)
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.8')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.810
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.8 b/usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.8
index e949cc7..bb73d75 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.8
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
.\" OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
.\" EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id: boot0cfg.8,v 1.1.1.1 1999/02/21 21:23:42 rnordier Exp $
+.\" $Id: boot0cfg.8,v 1.2 1999/02/22 09:36:54 rnordier Exp $
.\"
.Dd February 21, 1999
.Dt BOOT0CFG 8
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ the conventional (CHS) interface, when accessing disk-related BIOS
services. The default is
.Sq nopacket .
.It setdrv
-Causes the drive containing the disk to be referenced using drive
+Forces the drive containing the disk to be referenced using drive
number definable by means of the -d option. The default is
.Sq nosetdrv .
.It update
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ option may cause
.Sq boot0
to fail, depending on the nature of BIOS support.
.Pp
-The
+Use of the
.Sq setdrv
-option is presently implemented
-.Dq syntactically but not semantically .
+option with an incorrect -d operand may cause the MBR to be written
+to the wrong disk. Be careful!
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