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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man8/man8.amiga More markup. New sentence, new line.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/c7e8a3ba8891
branches: trunk
changeset: 953104:c7e8a3ba8891
user: wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Fri Feb 26 10:44:31 2021 +0000
description:
More markup. New sentence, new line.
diffstat:
share/man/man8/man8.amiga/boot.8 | 3 +--
share/man/man8/man8.amiga/installboot.8 | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diffs (80 lines):
diff -r 5e07fbbbecde -r c7e8a3ba8891 share/man/man8/man8.amiga/boot.8
--- a/share/man/man8/man8.amiga/boot.8 Fri Feb 26 10:33:46 2021 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man8/man8.amiga/boot.8 Fri Feb 26 10:44:31 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.17 2021/02/25 03:43:57 rin Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.18 2021/02/26 10:44:31 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@
.Op Fl n Ar memsegments
.Op Fl I Ar mask
.Ed
-.Pp
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It kernel-path
This gives you the opportunity to boot another kernel, say:
diff -r 5e07fbbbecde -r c7e8a3ba8891 share/man/man8/man8.amiga/installboot.8
--- a/share/man/man8/man8.amiga/installboot.8 Fri Feb 26 10:33:46 2021 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man8/man8.amiga/installboot.8 Fri Feb 26 10:44:31 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.24 2021/02/25 03:43:57 rin Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.25 2021/02/26 10:44:31 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
.Ar device
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm installboot
-copies the bootblock to a bootable partition. The
+copies the bootblock to a bootable partition.
+The
bootstrap is written into the bootblock area on the partition, right
in front of the superblock, and hence limited in size to
8192 bytes.
@@ -57,7 +58,8 @@
mouse buttons during boot; on DraCo machines, press the left mouse button
when prompted).
.Pp
-On RDB devices, the whole bootblock is loaded by the ROM. The number of
+On RDB devices, the whole bootblock is loaded by the ROM.
+The number of
boot blocks in the RDB partition entry must be correct.
.Pp
On floppy disks, the ROM always loads the first two blocks (1024 bytes),
@@ -108,9 +110,9 @@
is accidentally used on the whole disk partition, the RDB will be overwritten,
making your system unusable after the next reboot.
.Pp
-Some third-party accelerator boards are not autoconfiguring. You won't
-be able to use their memory when booting from the bootblock after a cold
-start.
+Some third-party accelerator boards are not autoconfiguring.
+You won't be able to use their memory when booting from the bootblock
+after a cold start.
.Pp
Some third-party disk controllers don't support bootblock booting.
.Pp
@@ -118,7 +120,9 @@
.Pp
Most 68060 boards, unlike the DraCo, don't set the SysBase->AttnFlags
bit for the 68060 CPU (a patch program which is called during
-AmigaOS startup does this). You need to add options BB060STUPIDROM
+AmigaOS startup does this).
+You need to add
+.Cd options BB060STUPIDROM
to your kernel to boot on such a machine.
.Pp
There is currently no easy way to edit the RDB from within
@@ -128,6 +132,8 @@
of bootblocks to 16 (for bootxx_ffsv1 or bootxx_ffsv2) or 2 (for bootxx_fd),
at least the first time you install the bootblock.
.Pp
-As normal dd is used to install the bootblock, you can only install onto
+As normal
+.Xr dd 1
+is used to install the bootblock, you can only install onto
your currently used root (or any other mounted) partition from single-user
mode, or while otherwise running in insecure mode.
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