diff --git a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/sysinstall.8 b/usr.sbin/sysinstall/sysinstall.8
index 2fca7525f8ec..d8b5515d3276 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/sysinstall.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/sysinstall/sysinstall.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd July 17, 2005
+.Dd February 18, 2007
 .Dt SYSINSTALL 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -814,7 +814,8 @@ Invoke the interactive user editor.
 .Sy Variables :
 None
 .It shutdown
-Stop the script and terminate sysinstall.
+Stop the script, terminate sysinstall and reboot the system.
+On the sparc64 platform, the system is halted rather than rebooted.
 .Pp
 .Sy Variables :
 None