Commit yaboot 1.3.5-pre3

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

diff --git a/man/yaboot.conf.5 b/man/yaboot.conf.5
index f42ff422bcbb8199511d0f4ecb4d7a8427e772a6..eb99842437fbfdf4cc1c2b1921f24dc348f2d4a1 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 "25 September 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 +247,13 @@ 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.
+The message file must be plain ASCII text with UNIX newlines.  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