From 83fa6c2aad555b56a69dae79dff2a8c4cc073b60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: christos <christos@NetBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:24:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Explain that the terse error message descriptions can be
 found in mbr.8

---
 share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.8 | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.8
index e03ec2eebac5..11ac500ee3b4 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/man8.i386/boot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.37 2005/01/27 18:38:20 wiz Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.38 2006/06/29 20:24:13 christos Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)boot_i386.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 .\"
-.Dd January 27, 2005
+.Dd June 29, 2006
 .Dt BOOT 8 i386
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -135,6 +135,14 @@ enter interactive mode.
 When using a short or 0 timeout, it is often useful to interrupt the boot
 by holding down a shift key, as some BIOSes and BIOS extensions will drain the
 keystroke buffer at various points during POST.
+.Ss Diagnostic Output
+If the first stage boot fails to load the boot, it will print a terse
+message indicating the reason for the failure.
+The possible error messages and their cause are listed in
+.Xr mbr 8 .
+.Pp
+If the first stage boot succeeds, the banner will be shown and the
+error messages should be self-explanatory.
 .Ss Interactive mode
 In interactive mode, the boot loader will present a prompt, allowing
 input of these commands: