Bug 130482

Summary: [patch] misleading loader documentation in handbook
Product: Documentation Reporter: Ben Kaduk <kaduk>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Tom Rhodes <trhodes>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Ben Kaduk 2009-01-13 02:30:03 UTC 
The handbook chapter on the Boot Manager and boot stages includes section 12.3.3.2 describing the loader built-in commands.  The description for the 'boot' command describes the optional kernelname parameter, but does not mention that this parameter is overrided if there is already a kernel image loaded.
(The correct procedure to boot a different kernel is mentioned later in the page, though.)

Fix: The patch available here is also inlined below:
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/kaduk/freebsd/patches/chapter.boot.diff.20090112


--------------- begin patch here --------------
How-To-Repeat: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
Comment 1 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-01-14 08:39:00 UTC 
trhodes     2009-01-14 08:38:50 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot chapter.sgml 
  Log:
  You cannot boot two kernels at once, mention the "unload" command.
  
  PR:             130482
  Submitted by:   Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.69      +4 -1      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
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Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-01-14 08:39:09 UTC 
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From-To: open->closed

Slightly modified version of your patch committed, it 
seems you are not allowed to use <term> there.  Thanks!
Comment 3 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-01-14 08:39:09 UTC 
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From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Over to me