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Fix a few grammos.

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Dru Lavigne 2014-04-22 17:52:05 +00:00
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.xml
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@ -81,9 +81,9 @@
Adventures of Baron Munchausen</citetitle>. A character had
fallen part way down a manhole, and pulled himself out by
grabbing his bootstraps and lifting. In the early days of
computing the term <firstterm>bootstrap</firstterm> was applied
to the mechanism used to load the operating system, which has
become shortened to <quote>booting</quote>.</para>
computing, the term <firstterm>bootstrap</firstterm> was applied
to the mechanism used to load the operating system. It has
since become shortened to <quote>booting</quote>.</para>
<indexterm><primary><acronym>BIOS</acronym></primary></indexterm>
@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ boot:</screen>
<para>Use <filename>kernel.GENERIC</filename> to refer to the
default kernel that comes with an installation, or
<filename>kernel.old</filename><indexterm><primary><filename>kernel.old</filename></primary></indexterm>
<filename>kernel.old</filename>,
to refer to the previously installed kernel before a system
upgrade or before configuring a custom kernel.</para>
@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ boot:</screen>
<indexterm><primary>console</primary></indexterm>
<para>A user can specify this mode by booting with
<option>-s</option>, or by setting the <envar>boot
<option>-s</option> or by setting the <envar>boot
_ single</envar> variable in
<application>loader</application>. It can also be reached
by running <command>shutdown now</command> from multi-user