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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 2014 18:26:30 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r261522 - head/sys/boot/i386/gptboot
Message-ID:  <201402051826.s15IQUIL077377@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: wblock (doc committer)
Date: Wed Feb  5 18:26:30 2014
New Revision: 261522
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/261522

Log:
  Describe the use of a freebsd-boot GPT partition, brought up by Scot
  Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> on the -doc mailing list.
  
  Also modify the Author section to be clear that I wrote the man page,
  not gptboot.
  
  MFC after:	3 days

Modified:
  head/sys/boot/i386/gptboot/gptboot.8

Modified: head/sys/boot/i386/gptboot/gptboot.8
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/boot/i386/gptboot/gptboot.8	Wed Feb  5 18:16:18 2014	(r261521)
+++ head/sys/boot/i386/gptboot/gptboot.8	Wed Feb  5 18:26:30 2014	(r261522)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd July 3, 2013
+.Dd February 5, 2014
 .Dt GPTBOOT 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -190,12 +190,18 @@ parameters for the boot blocks
 .El
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 .Nm
-is typically installed in combination with a
+is installed in a
+.Cm freebsd-boot
+partition, usually the first partition on the disk.
+A
 .Dq protective MBR
 .Po
 see
 .Xr gpart 8
-.Pc .
+.Pc
+is typically installed in combination with
+.Nm .
+.Pp
 Install
 .Nm
 on the
@@ -235,4 +241,5 @@ gpart set -a bootonce -i 2 ada0
 .Nm
 appeared in FreeBSD 7.1.
 .Sh AUTHORS
-Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org>
+.An
+This manual page written by Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org>.



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