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diff --git a/man/petitboot.8 b/man/petitboot.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9dc2222 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/petitboot.8 @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2009 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. +.\" Copyright 2009 Sony Corp. +.\" +.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.\" the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. +.\" +.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software +.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA +.\" +.\" Maintainer's Notes: +.\" * For syntax help see the man pages for 'mdoc' and 'mdoc.samples'. +.\" * To check syntax use this: +.\" 'groff -C -mtty-char -Tutf8 -man petitboot.8'. +.\" * To check format use this: 'less petitboot.8'. +.\" +.Dd "" +.Dt petitboot 8 +.Os +.\" +.Sh NAME +.\" ==== +.Nm petitboot +.Nd The Petitboot bootloader +.\" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.\" =========== +Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on Linux kexec. +Petitboot can load Linux kernel and initrd images from any device that +can be mounted by Linux, and can also load images from the network +using the +HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, SFTP, and TFTP +protocols. +.Pp +Petitboot looks for bootloader configuration files on mountable devices +in the system, and can also be configured to use boot information +from a DHCP server. +.\" +.Sh SEE ALSO +.\" ======== +.Xr pb-cui 8 , Xr pb-discover 8 , Xr pb-event 8 |
