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Remove the reference to the -b option; it's gone.

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yokota 1998-09-23 06:54:14 +00:00
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sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8
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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)boot_i386.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\"
.\" $Id: boot_i386.8,v 1.12 1998/07/09 06:24:21 phk Exp $
.\" $Id: boot_i386.8,v 1.13 1998/07/15 06:51:35 charnier Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
.Dt BOOT 8 i386
@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ prompt. At this time, the following input will be accepted:
.It \&?
Give a short listing of the files in the root directory of the default
boot device, as a hint about available boot files.
.It Op bios_drive:interface(unit,part) Op filename Op Fl abCcDdghPrsv
.It Op bios_drive:interface(unit,part) Op filename Op Fl aCcDdghPrsv
Specify boot file and flags.
.Bl -tag -width 10x -compact
.It bios_drive
@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL disks on a WD100[2367] or lookalike
controller
.It fd
5 1/4" or 3 1/2" High density floppies
.It sd
.It da
SCSI disk on any supported SCSI controller
.\".It cd
.\"boot from CDROM
@ -124,19 +124,12 @@ The pathname of the file to boot (relative to the root directory
on the specified partition). Defaults to
.Pa kernel .
Symbolic links are not supported (hard links are).
.It Fl abcCdDghPrsv
.It Fl acCdDghPrsv
Boot flags:
.Bl -tag -width "-CXX" -compact
.It Fl a
during kernel initialization,
ask for the device to mount as as the root file system.
.It Fl b
put the screen in 800x600x4 mode (Vesa mode 0x102).
This is useful on laptops whose graphics
chips are not supported by XFree86 by the XF86_VGA16 server.
You need to have a 8x16 font compiled into syscons or loaded as
part of boot-strap if you actually want to see anything on
the screen.
.It Fl C
boot from CDROM.
.It Fl c
@ -201,7 +194,6 @@ be verbose during device probing (and later).
.Pp
You may put a BIOS drive number, a controller type, a unit number,
a partition, a kernel file name and the
.Fl b ,
.Fl D,
.Fl h
or
@ -242,9 +234,5 @@ The disklabel format used by this version of
is quite
different from that of other architectures.
.Pp
The kernel's output is invisible (nothing but the cursor can be seen) when
.Fl b
is used unless a font has been compiled into the kernel.
.Pp
The boot flags are not very self-explanatory, and the alphabet has
too few characters to implement every potentially useful boot option.