.\" 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 September 2001" "GNU/Linux PowerPC" "File Formats"
.SH NAME
.B yaboot.conf
\- Configuration file format used by
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
projects / yaboot.git / blobdiff