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From: dpelleg+bsd@cs.cmu.edu
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Subject: boot manpage describes bootfile prompt incorrectly 
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>Number:         26692
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       boot manpage describes bootfile prompt incorrectly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    rnordier
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 18 19:00:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Wed Mar 13 12:29:21 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Wed Mar 13 12:30:56 PST 2002
>Originator:     Dan Pelleg
>Release:        4.3-RC2
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD p 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #4: Sat Apr 14 09:00:50 EDT 2001 root@k:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/P i386
>Description:
boot manpage says to type the following at the boot prompt to boot
from a different file
bios_drive:interface(unit,part) filename

I believe it should be:
bios_drive:interface(unit,slice,part) filename

and is certainly how it works for me (when I try to boot into
slices other than 1).

My reading of parse() in sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c seems to
concur, but I won't claim I truly understand that piece of code.

>How-To-Repeat:
man boot
>Fix:
See above.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->rnordier 
Responsible-Changed-By: ru 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Aug 21 06:25:38 PDT 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Let Robert document the full syntax of a boot prompt. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26692 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: rnordier 
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 13 12:29:21 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Documented by Ruslan Ermilov in r1.35 of src/sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26692 
>Unformatted:
