From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@amutable.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 10:21:12 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man: drop -b/s/S/2/4 from the docs
X-Git-Tag: v261-rc3~28^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F42404%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

man: drop -b/s/S/2/4 from the docs

We retain 1/3/5.
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diff --git a/man/systemd.xml b/man/systemd.xml
index 9020579d73c..557cd766482 100644
--- a/man/systemd.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.xml
@@ -994,7 +994,6 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>emergency</varname></term>
         <term><varname>rd.emergency</varname></term>
-        <term><varname>-b</varname></term>
 
         <listitem><para>Boot into emergency mode. Those options are equivalent to
         <varname>systemd.unit=emergency.target</varname> or
@@ -1008,8 +1007,6 @@
         <term><varname>rescue</varname></term>
         <term><varname>rd.rescue</varname></term>
         <term><varname>single</varname></term>
-        <term><varname>s</varname></term>
-        <term><varname>S</varname></term>
         <term><varname>1</varname></term>
 
         <listitem><para>Boot into rescue mode. Those options are equivalent to either
@@ -1021,16 +1018,13 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><varname>2</varname></term>
         <term><varname>3</varname></term>
-        <term><varname>4</varname></term>
         <term><varname>5</varname></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Shortcuts to boot into specific targets:
-        <varname>2</varname>, <varname>3</varname>, and <varname>4</varname> are equivalent to
-        <varname>systemd.unit=multi-user.target</varname>; and <varname>5</varname> is equivalent to
-        <varname>systemd.unit=graphical.target</varname>. Those options were initially provided
-        for compatibility with SysV, but are retained as convenient shortcuts.</para>
+        <listitem><para>Shortcuts to boot into specific targets: <varname>3</varname> is equivalent to
+        <varname>systemd.unit=multi-user.target</varname> and <varname>5</varname> is equivalent to
+        <varname>systemd.unit=graphical.target</varname>. Those options were initially provided for
+        compatibility with SysV, but are retained as convenient shortcuts.</para>
 
         <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v186"/></listitem>
       </varlistentry>