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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.xml index 2e865047b1..aec95d1a8b 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.xml @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ <sect1 id="boot-synopsis"> <title>Synopsis</title> + <indexterm><primary>booting</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>bootstrap</primary></indexterm> @@ -76,8 +77,10 @@ <indexterm><primary>BIOS</primary></indexterm> - <indexterm><primary>Basic Input/Output - System</primary><see>BIOS</see></indexterm> + <indexterm> + <primary>Basic Input/Output System</primary> + <see>BIOS</see> + </indexterm> <para>On x86 hardware the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is responsible for loading the operating system. To do this, the @@ -154,6 +157,7 @@ <sect2 id="boot-boot0"> <title>The Boot Manager</title> + <indexterm><primary>Master Boot Record (MBR)</primary></indexterm> @@ -575,8 +579,8 @@ boot:</screen> <application>GNOME</application>, <application>KDE</application>, or <application>XFce</application> are installed, the X11 - desktop can be launched by using the - <command>startx</command> command.</para> + desktop can be launched by using + <command>startx</command>.</para> <para>Some users prefer the X11 graphical login screen over the traditional text based login prompt. Display managers @@ -693,16 +697,18 @@ bitmap_load="YES" bitmap_name="<replaceable>/boot/splash.pcx</replaceable>"</programlisting> <para>In version 8.3 another option is to use ascii art in - <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw">TheDraw</ulink> + <ulink + url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw">TheDraw</ulink> format.</para> <programlisting>splash_txt="YES" bitmap_load="YES" bitmap_name="<replaceable>/boot/splash.bin</replaceable>"</programlisting> - <para>The file name is not restricted to <quote>splash</quote> - as shown in the above example. It can be anything as long - as it is one of the above types such as, + <para>The file name is not restricted to + <quote>splash</quote> as shown in the above example. It + can be anything as long as it is one of the above types + such as, <filename><replaceable>splash_640x400</replaceable>.bmp</filename> or <filename><replaceable>bluewave</replaceable>.pcx</filename>.</para> @@ -745,6 +751,7 @@ bitmap_name="<replaceable>/boot/splash.bin</replaceable>"</programlisting> <sect1 id="boot-kernel"> <title>Kernel Interaction During Boot</title> + <indexterm> <primary>kernel</primary> <secondary>boot interaction</secondary> @@ -852,7 +859,7 @@ bitmap_name="<replaceable>/boot/splash.bin</replaceable>"</programlisting> Stage 3 boot loader</link> prompt. Variables can be added using <command>set</command>, removed with <command>unset</command>, and viewed with the <command>show</command> commands. Variables - set in the <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> file can be + set in <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> can be overridden here also. Device hints entered at the boot loader are not permanent and will be forgotten on the next reboot.</para> @@ -860,8 +867,8 @@ bitmap_name="<replaceable>/boot/splash.bin</replaceable>"</programlisting> <para>Once the system is booted, the &man.kenv.1; command can be used to dump all of the variables.</para> - <para>The syntax for the <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> - file is one variable per line, using the standard hash + <para>The syntax for <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> + is one variable per line, using the standard hash <quote>#</quote> as comment markers. Lines are constructed as follows:</para> @@ -946,6 +953,7 @@ bitmap_name="<replaceable>/boot/splash.bin</replaceable>"</programlisting> <sect2 id="boot-singleuser"> <title>Single-User Mode</title> + <indexterm><primary>single-user mode</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>console</primary></indexterm> @@ -991,6 +999,7 @@ console none unknown off insecure</programlisting> <sect2 id="boot-multiuser"> <title>Multi-User Mode</title> + <indexterm><primary>multi-user mode</primary></indexterm> <para>If &man.init.8; finds your file systems to be in order, or |