Commit yaboot 1.3.5-pre2

[yaboot.git] / man / yaboot.conf.5

diff --git a/man/yaboot.conf.5 b/man/yaboot.conf.5
index 037873905d0401995370a6d423a37f2e8dd397a2..b1371bf8cfbb3bcafbbae397b7176004f3a5af82 100644 (file)
--- a/man/yaboot.conf.5
+++ b/man/yaboot.conf.5
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\" This program is distributed according to the Gnu General Public License.
 .\" See the file COPYING in the ybin source distribution.
 .\"
 .\" This program is distributed according to the Gnu General Public License.
 .\" See the file COPYING in the ybin source distribution.
 .\"

-.TH YABOOT.CONF 5 "28 May 2001" "GNU/Linux PowerPC" "File Formats"
+.TH YABOOT.CONF 5 "25 October 2001" "GNU/Linux PowerPC" "File Formats"

 .SH NAME
 .B yaboot.conf
 \- Configuration file format used by
 .SH NAME
 .B yaboot.conf
 \- Configuration file format used by


@@ -247,8 +247,12 @@ darwin.  This is only relevant if you have \fIbsd=\fR, \fImacos=\fR,
 \fImacosx=\fR, or \fIdarwin=\fR options defined.
 .TP
 .BI "message=" message_filename
 \fImacosx=\fR, or \fIdarwin=\fR options defined.
 .TP
 .BI "message=" message_filename

-Specifies a file containing a message that is displayed before the boot
-prompt. [CURRENTLY UNIMPLEMENTED]
+Specifies a file containing a message that is displayed before the
+boot prompt.  You may specify either a plain pathname, in which case
+the default device and partition will be derived from the
+\fIdevice=\fR and \fIpartition=\fR lines in the global section of
+\fByaboot.conf\fR, or you can specify a full OpenFirmware device
+path.  Note: only the first 2000 bytes of this file will be read.

 .TP
 .BI "password=" password
 Protect booting by a password. The password is given in either
 .TP
 .BI "password=" password
 Protect booting by a password. The password is given in either


@@ -293,14 +297,16 @@ brown, light-gray, dark-gray, yellow, and white.  The default is
 black.
 .TP
 .BI "bsd=" of-path
 black.
 .TP
 .BI "bsd=" of-path

-The OpenFirmware or Unix device path to a NetBSD or OpenBSD bootstrap
-partition, this partition must already have the BSD ofwboot.elf
-bootloader installed in the root directory..  When you define this
-option you will be presented with a simple menu at bootup allowing you
-to hit L to boot GNU/Linux or B to boot BSD (along with other choices
-if configured).  This will only work if you are using the new
-\fI/usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofboot\fR script.  When this is set to a unix
-device node (ie \fI/dev/hda11\fR) then ybin will use the
+The OpenFirmware or Unix device path to a NetBSD or OpenBSD root
+partition, this partition must have the BSD kernel located at \fI/bsd\fR.
+You must also have the BSD bootloader
+\fIofwboot\fR installed at \fI/usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot\fR,
+\fBybin\fR(8) will install this onto the \fBbootstrap\fR(8) partition.
+When you define this option you will be presented with a simple menu at
+bootup allowing you to hit L to boot GNU/Linux or B to boot BSD (along
+with other choices if configured).  This will only work if you are
+using the new \fI/usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofboot\fR script.  When this is
+set to a unix device node (ie \fI/dev/hda11\fR) then ybin will use the

 \fBofpath\fR(8) utility to determine the OpenFirmware device path.
 .TP
 .BI "macos=" of-path
 \fBofpath\fR(8) utility to determine the OpenFirmware device path.
 .TP
 .BI "macos=" of-path