Fix some minor English style nits reported by igor.

Approved by:	dougb
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Eitan Adler 2012-02-11 04:01:48 +00:00
parent 09c5e4f911
commit 2810f33df5
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00
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within some OS's file system. (A boot manager is sometimes also
called a <emphasis>boot loader</emphasis>, but FreeBSD uses that
term for a later stage of booting.) Popular boot managers
include <application>boot0</application> (a.k.a.
include <application>boot0</application> (aka
<application>Boot Easy</application>, the standard &os; boot
manager), <application>Grub</application>,
<application>GAG</application>, and
@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
<para>If you have only one operating system installed on your
disks then a standard PC MBR will suffice. This MBR searches
for the first bootable (a.k.a. active) slice on the disk, and
for the first bootable (aka active) slice on the disk, and
then runs the code on that slice to load the remainder of the
operating system. The MBR installed by &man.fdisk.8;, by
default, is such an MBR. It is based on
@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ boot:</screen>
<indexterm><primary>single-user mode</primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>To simply boot your usual kernel, but in single-user
<para>To boot your usual kernel, but in single-user
mode:</para>
<screen><userinput>boot -s</userinput></screen>
@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ boot:</screen>
<application>GNOME</application>, and
<application>kdm</application> for
<application>KDE</application> (and any other from the Ports
Collection) basically provide a graphical login screen in
Collection) provide a graphical login screen in
place of the console login prompt. After a successful
login, they present the user with a graphical
desktop.</para>
@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ console none unknown off insecure</programlisting>
not terminate timely.</para>
<para>To power down a FreeBSD machine on architectures and systems
that support power management, simply use the command
that support power management, use the command
<command>shutdown -p now</command> to turn the power off
immediately. To just reboot a FreeBSD system, just use
<command>shutdown -r now</command>. You need to be