From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 12:22:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112761065670 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:22:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7EDB8FC1B for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:22:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4A6BDB96B; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:22:04 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:55:21 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p13; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201206210755.21402.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:22:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Subject: Re: gptboot and zfsboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:22:05 -0000 On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:59:54 pm Warren Block wrote: > We have no man pages for gptboot or zfsboot. Are the details of how > they work covered anywhere other than the source? There's a need for > these. > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=32807 > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=32886 Note that there is no boot2(8) manpage either. Instead there is a boot(8) manpage. I do think boot(8) does not currently handle gptboot and zfsboot (it should be fairly easy to update it for gptboot), but that is the right place to document these I believe. -- John Baldwin