diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.sun3/boot.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.sun3/boot.8
index f34e84ab0947..c183cc341d75 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/man8.sun3/boot.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/man8.sun3/boot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.12 2003/04/08 03:49:46 lukem Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: boot.8,v 1.13 2003/05/03 23:15:31 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm boot
-.Nd
-system bootstrapping procedures
+.Nd system bootstrapping procedures
 .\" .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .\" .Nm reboot
 .\" .Op Fl n
@@ -52,7 +51,7 @@ system bootstrapping procedures
 Normally, the system will reboot itself at power-up or after crashes.
 An automatic consistency check of the file systems will be performed
 as described in
-.Xr fsck 8 .
+.Xr fsck 8 ,
 and unless this fails, the system will resume multi-user operations.
 .Ss Cold starts
 A disk-boot program
@@ -88,15 +87,21 @@ Boot the system in verbose mode.
 .El
 .Pp
 Any extra flags or arguments, or the
-.Ar \*[Lt]boot string\*[Gt]
+.Aq Ar boot string
 after the -- separator are passed to the boot PROM.
 Other flags are currently ignored.
 .Pp
-At any time you can break back to the ROM by pressing the `L1' and `a'
+At any time you can break back to the ROM by pressing the
+.Sq L1
+and
+.Sq a
 keys at the same time (if the console is a serial port the same is
-achieved by sending a `break').
+achieved by sending a
+.Sq break ) .
 If you do this accidentally you can continue whatever was in progress
-by typing `c' followed by the return key.
+by typing
+.Sq c
+followed by the return key.
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/installboot -compact
 .It Pa /netbsd
@@ -111,7 +116,6 @@ second-level boot program for UFS disks
 program to install bootxx on a disk
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr crash 8 ,
 .Xr disklabel 8 ,
 .Xr fsck 8 ,
 .Xr halt 8 ,