Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Thu Jan 27 09:52:13 UTC 2011
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man8/man8.sandpoint: altboot.8
Log Message:
New sentence, new line; full month name in Dd; add RCS Id.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 src/share/man/man8/man8.sandpoint/altboot.8
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Modified files:
Index: src/share/man/man8/man8.sandpoint/altboot.8
diff -u src/share/man/man8/man8.sandpoint/altboot.8:1.1 src/share/man/man8/man8.sandpoint/altboot.8:1.2
--- src/share/man/man8/man8.sandpoint/altboot.8:1.1 Wed Jan 26 11:25:51 2011
+++ src/share/man/man8/man8.sandpoint/altboot.8 Thu Jan 27 09:52:13 2011
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-.Dd Jan 26, 2011
+.\" $NetBSD: altboot.8,v 1.2 2011/01/27 09:52:13 wiz Exp $
+.Dd January 26, 2011
.Dt ALTBOOT 8 sandpoint
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -12,7 +13,8 @@
.Nx
program which works on top of a
.Tn NAS
-product's bootloader. It is capable of loading a
+product's bootloader.
+It is capable of loading a
.Nx
kernel from an
.Tn IDE
@@ -24,9 +26,9 @@
.Tn TFTP
protocol.
.Nm
-can be stored in flash ROM. Typically you will first copy it from
-flash into RAM and then invoke it there to boot
-the
+can be stored in flash ROM.
+Typically you will first copy it from flash into RAM and then invoke
+it there to boot the
.Nx
kernel.
.Pp
@@ -35,20 +37,21 @@
.Tn U-Boot/PPCBoot
bootloaders used by
.Tn NAS
-products. With an appropriate boot command line,
-saved in the environment,
+products.
+With an appropriate boot command line, saved in the environment,
.Nm
can load and start a
.Nx
-kernel without manual intervention. The original
+kernel without manual intervention.
+The original
.Tn U-Boot/PPCBoot
bootloaders remain useful and altboot works as a functional extension
of them.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Nm
occupies less than 128KB in volume and can be stored to any vacant
-space of the system's flash. It is made to run at RAM address offset
-0x0100'0000.
+space of the system's flash.
+It is made to run at RAM address offset 0x0100'0000.
.Tn U-Boot/PPCboot
is instructed to copy the program to RAM in this way:
.Pp
@@ -64,11 +67,11 @@
.Bl -tag -width xx
.It Va optN
multi, auto, ask, single, ddb, userconf, norm, quiet, verb,
-silient, debug
+silent, debug
.Pp
Omitting optN makes
.Nm
-default to multi-user mode boot.
+default to multi-user mode boot.
.Pp
N.B., the maximum number of the go command argument varies
and depends on the
@@ -126,12 +129,13 @@
from an
.Tn FFSv2
or
-.Tn FFSv1
+.Tn FFSv1
filesystem.
.Em N
is a number to distinguish the target drive.
.Em p
-is a partition specifier. When omitted, partition
+is a partition specifier.
+When omitted, partition
.Sq a
is assumed.
.Dq wd0a
@@ -152,7 +156,8 @@
The following is a procedure to setup the system for starting
.Nx
after a 5 second delay, allowing the user to break into interactive
-mode. Note that a backslashed
+mode.
+Note that a backslashed
.Sq \&;
is necessary to enter the script correctly.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
