Bug 26692

Summary: boot manpage describes bootfile prompt incorrectly
Product: Documentation Reporter: dpelleg+bsd <dpelleg+bsd>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: rnordier
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description dpelleg+bsd 2001-04-19 03:00:00 UTC 
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.

Fix: 

See above.
How-To-Repeat: man boot
Comment 1 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-21 14:25:38 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->rnordier

Let Robert document the full syntax of a boot prompt.
Comment 2 rnordier freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-03-13 20:29:21 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Documented by Ruslan Ermilov in r1.35 of src/sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8.