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The nextboot(8) manual page currently says that the loader(8) would delete

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the /boot/nextboot.conf file or its contents which is 1) not the most user-
friendly way of working with custom configurations, and 2) simply not true
for both Forth and Lua implementations: they would not delete it, but just
change the setting to "NO", that is, disable it.

While at it, add one missing serial (Oxford) comma and fix some bogus line
wraps along the way.

Approved by:	bcr (manpages)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25971
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Alexey Dokuchaev 2020-10-11 10:40:11 +00:00
parent 506512b170
commit 53098f0e28
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=366626
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@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd September 19, 2020
.Dd October 11, 2020
.Dt NEXTBOOT 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -41,14 +41,14 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility allows specifying some combination of an alternate kernel, boot flags
and kernel environment for the
next time the machine is booted.
utility allows specifying some combination of an alternate kernel, boot
flags, and kernel environment for the next time the machine is booted.
Once the
.Xr loader 8
loads in the new kernel
information, it is deleted so in case the new kernel hangs the machine,
once it is rebooted, the machine will automatically revert to its previous
loads in the new kernel information from the
.Pa /boot/nextboot.conf
file, it is disabled so in case the new kernel hangs the machine, once
it is rebooted, the machine will automatically revert to its previous
configuration.
.Pp
The options are as follows: