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authorGuangyuan Yang <ygy@FreeBSD.org>2021-02-15 22:03:37 +0000
committerGuangyuan Yang <ygy@FreeBSD.org>2021-02-22 01:13:24 +0000
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parentd4a0c102a237beb5650a2de4cc80f1aa496601d7 (diff)
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pxeboot(8): remove antiquated information
While I was there: - Fix some typos - Fix an excessive argument "indent" reported by mandoc -Tlint - Replace a dead link with the one suggested by https://www.uefi.org/uefi Submitted by: linimon (in part) Reviewed by: bcr Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27774 (cherry picked from commit c90fb7acf099f1dc982f8d6087aa92809ae43727)
-rw-r--r--stand/i386/pxeldr/pxeboot.823
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/stand/i386/pxeldr/pxeboot.8 b/stand/i386/pxeldr/pxeboot.8
index c9fa434b3028..58b1f06bcd0f 100644
--- a/stand/i386/pxeldr/pxeboot.8
+++ b/stand/i386/pxeldr/pxeboot.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd November 25, 2018
+.Dd February 15, 2021
.Dt PXEBOOT 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -97,19 +97,19 @@ from the specified server before loading any other files.
.Pp
Valid
.Va option root-path
-Syntax is the following
-.Bl -tag -width <scheme>://ip/path indent
+syntax is the following
+.Bl -tag -width <scheme>://ip/path
.It /path
path to the root filesystem on the NFS server
-.It ip:/path
+.It ip://path
path to the root filesystem on the NFS server
.Ar ip
-.It nfs:/path
+.It nfs://path
path to the root filesystem on the NFS server
.It nfs://ip/path
path to the root filesystem on the NFS server
.Ar ip
-.It tftp:/path
+.It tftp://path
path to the root filesystem on the TFTP server
.It tftp://ip/path
path to the root filesystem on the TFTP server
@@ -129,18 +129,9 @@ In all other respects,
acts just like
.Xr loader 8 .
.Pp
-As PXE is still in its infancy, some firmware versions may not work
-properly.
-The
-.Nm
-bootloader has been extensively tested on version 0.99 of Intel firmware;
-pre-release versions of the newer 2.0 firmware are known to have
-problems.
-Check with the device's manufacturer for their latest stable release.
-.Pp
For further information on Intel's PXE specifications and Wired for
Management (WfM) systems, see
-.Li http://www.intel.com/design/archives/wfm/ .
+.Li http://www.pix.net/software/pxeboot/archive/pxespec.pdf .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr loader 8
.Sh HISTORY