Module Name: src
Committed By: tnn
Date: Tue Apr 6 20:15:22 UTC 2010
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man8/man8.i386: pxeboot.8
Log Message:
The pxeboot manpage implies that boot.cfg gets loaded by default,
but this is no longer true following i386/stand/pxeboot/main.c v1.23.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.15 -r1.16 src/share/man/man8/man8.i386/pxeboot.8
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/share/man/man8/man8.i386/pxeboot.8
diff -u src/share/man/man8/man8.i386/pxeboot.8:1.15 src/share/man/man8/man8.i386/pxeboot.8:1.16
--- src/share/man/man8/man8.i386/pxeboot.8:1.15 Fri Apr 10 23:22:30 2009
+++ src/share/man/man8/man8.i386/pxeboot.8 Tue Apr 6 20:15:22 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: pxeboot.8,v 1.15 2009/04/10 23:22:30 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: pxeboot.8,v 1.16 2010/04/06 20:15:22 tnn Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003
.\" Matthias Drochner. All rights reserved.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd April 10, 2008
+.Dd April 06, 2010
.Dt PXEBOOT 8 i386
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -45,6 +45,20 @@
.Pq Tn PXE
specification.
.Pp
+This manual page assumes the
+.Nm
+program has been configured
+via
+.Xr installboot 8
+to use a
+.Xr boot.cfg 5
+file. For historical reasons
+.Xr boot.cfg 5
+is NOT loaded by default.
+See
+.Sx EXAMPLES
+for how to enable it.
+.Pp
Network booting a system through
.Tn PXE
is a two-stage process:
@@ -245,6 +259,15 @@
.It Pa /usr/mdec/pxeboot_ia32.bin
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
+To enable
+.Xr boot.cfg 5
+support in the
+.Nm
+program:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+installboot -e -o bootconf pxeboot_ia32.bin
+.Ed
+.Pp
The first
.Pa /etc/dhcpd.conf
example shows a simple configuration which just loads
@@ -293,7 +316,6 @@
}
}
}
-}
.Ed
.Pp
The following
