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The MI boot code used to have an infinite loop trying to boot the kernel,

which got limited to at most two tries 26 years ago for the 2.3 release,
but the documentation was never updated to match this change. Do it now.

Reported by Nir Lichtman on tech@
This commit is contained in:
miod 2024-11-05 09:42:48 +00:00
parent d21175333f
commit bf205b9638
6 changed files with 24 additions and 18 deletions

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.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.2 2023/03/14 06:55:31 jmc Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.3 2024/11/05 09:42:48 miod Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: March 14 2023 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2024 $
.Dt BOOT 8 alpha
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ If time expires, the kernel will be loaded according to
the current variable settings (see the
.Ic set
command).
Each time a kernel load fails, the timeout is increased by one second.
If the kernel load fails, a second attempt is made with the timeout increased
by one second.
The sequence of
.Nm
operations is as follows:

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.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.35 2024/04/25 18:31:49 kn Exp $
\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.36 2024/11/05 09:42:48 miod Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: April 25 2024 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2024 $
.Dt BOOT 8 amd64
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ If time expires, the kernel will be loaded according to
the current variable settings (see the
.Ic set
command).
Each time a kernel load fails, the timeout is increased by one second.
If the kernel load fails, a second attempt is made with the timeout increased
by one second.
The sequence of
.Nm
operations is as follows:

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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.27 2023/02/23 19:48:22 miod Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.28 2024/11/05 09:42:48 miod Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Miodrag Vallat
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Michael Shalayeff
@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: February 23 2023 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2024 $
.Dt BOOT 8 hppa
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ If time expires, the kernel will be loaded according to
the current variable settings (see the
.Nm set
command).
Each time a kernel load fails, the timeout is increased by one second.
If the kernel load fails, a second attempt is made with the timeout increased
by one second.
The sequence of
.Nm
operations is as follows:

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.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.68 2023/02/23 19:48:22 miod Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.69 2024/11/05 09:42:48 miod Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: February 23 2023 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2024 $
.Dt BOOT 8 i386
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ If time expires, the kernel will be loaded according to
the current variable settings (see the
.Ic set
command).
Each time a kernel load fails, the timeout is increased by one second.
If the kernel load fails, a second attempt is made with the timeout increased
by one second.
The sequence of
.Nm
operations is as follows:

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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.13 2023/02/23 19:48:22 miod Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.14 2024/11/05 09:42:48 miod Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: February 23 2023 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2024 $
.Dt BOOT 8 landisk
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ If time expires, the kernel will be loaded according to
the current variable settings (see the
.Ic set
command).
Each time a kernel load fails, the timeout is increased by one second.
If the kernel load fails, a second attempt is made with the timeout increased
by one second.
The sequence of
.Nm
operations is as follows:

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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.2 2023/02/23 19:48:22 miod Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: boot.8,v 1.3 2024/11/05 09:42:49 miod Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: February 23 2023 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2024 $
.Dt BOOT 8 luna88k
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ If time expires, the kernel will be loaded according to
the current variable settings (see the
.Ic set
command).
Each time a kernel load fails, the timeout is increased by one second.
If the kernel load fails, a second attempt is made with the timeout increased
by one second.
The sequence of
.Nm
operations is as follows: