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-.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 27.05.2010 2.0~a2 "Debian Live Projekt"
+.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 04.11.2011 3.0~a22\-1 "Debian Live Projekt"
.SH NAME
\fBlive\-boot\fP \- System Boot Skripte
.SH KONFIGURATION
\fBlive\-boot\fP kann durch Boot Parameter oder durch Konfigurationsdateien
konfiguriert werden.
+.PP
+To configure the live\-boot parameters used by default in a live image, see
+the \-\-bootappend\-live option in the \fIlb_config\fP(1) manual page.
.SS "Kernel Parameter"
\fBlive\-boot\fP ist nur dann aktiv, wenn 'boot=live' als Kernel Parameter
.SS Konfigurationsdateien
\fBlive\-boot\fP can be configured (but not activated) through configuration
files. Those files can be placed either in the root filesystem itself
-(/etc/live/boot.conf, /etc/live/boot.conf.d/), or on the live media
-(live/boot.conf, live/boot.conf.d/).
+(/etc/live/boot.conf, /etc/live/boot.d/), or on the live media
+(live/boot.conf, live/boot.d/).
.SH OPTIONEN
.\" FIXME
"console=ttyS0,115200"
.IP \fBdebug\fP 4
Makes initramfs boot process more verbose.
+.br
+Use: debug=1
+.br
+Without setting debug to a value the messages may not be shown.
.IP \fBfetch\fP=\fIURL\fP 4
-Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url,
-copying to ram and booting it. Due to current limitations in busyboxs wget
-and DNS resolution, an URL can not contain a hostname but an IP only.
+.IP \fBhttpfs\fP=\fIURL\fP 4
+Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url.
+The fetch method copies the image to ram and the httpfs method uses fuse and
+httpfs2 to mount the image in place. Copying to ram requires more memory and
+might take a long time for large images. However, it is more likely to work
+correctly because it does not require networking afterwards and the system
+operates faster once booted because it does not require to contact the
+server anymore.
+.br
+Due to current limitations in busyboxs wget and DNS resolution, an URL can
+not contain a hostname but an IP only.
.br
Not working: http://example.com/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs
.br
Also note that therefore it's currently not possible to fetch an image from
a namebased virtualhost of an httpd if it is sharing the ip with the main
httpd instance.
-.IP "\fBhostname\fP=\fIHOSTNAME\fP, \fBusername\fP=\fIUSER\fP, \fBuserfullname\fP=\fIUSERFULLNAME\fP" 4
-Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file.
+.br
+You may also use the live iso image in place of the squashfs image.
+.IP \fBiscsi\fP=\fIserver\-ip[,server\-port];target\-name\fP 4
+Boot from an iSCSI target that has an iso or disk live image as one of its
+LUNs. The specified target is searched for a LUN which looks like a live
+media. If you use the \fBiscsitarget\fP software iSCSI target solution which is
+packaged in Debian your ietd.conf might look like this:
+.br
+# The target\-name you specify in the iscsi= parameter
+.br
+Target <target\-name>
+ Lun 0 Path=<path\-to\-your\-live\-image.iso>,Type=fileio,IOMode=ro
+ # If you want to boot multiple machines you might want to look at tuning some parameters like
+ # Wthreads or MaxConnections
+.IP \fBfromiso\fP=\fI/PATH/TO/IMAGE\fP 4
+Allows to use a filesystem from within an iso image that's available on
+live\-media.
.IP \fBignore_uuid\fP 4
Do not check that any UUID embedded in the initramfs matches the discovered
medium. live\-boot may be told to generate a UUID by setting
If specified, an MD5 sum is calculated on the live media during boot and
compared to the value found in md5sum.txt found in the root directory of the
live media.
-.IP "\fBip\fP=[\fICLIENT_IP\fP]:[\fISERVER_IP\fP]:[\fIGATEWAY_IP\fP]:[\fINETMASK\fP]:[\fIHOSTNAME\fP]:[\fIDEVICE\fP]:[\fIAUTOCONF\fP] [,[\fICLIENT_IP\fP]:[\fISERVER_IP\fP]:[\fIGATEWAY_IP\fP]:[\fINETMASK\fP]:[\fIHOSTNAME\fP]:[\fIDEVICE\fP]:[\fIAUTOCONF\fP]]" 4
+.IP "\fBip\fP=[\fIDEVICE\fP]:[\fICLIENT_IP\fP]:[\fISERVER_IP\fP]:[\fIGATEWAY_IP\fP]:[\fINETMASK\fP]:[\fIHOSTNAME\fP]:[\fIAUTOCONF\fP] [,[\fIDEVICE\fP]:[\fICLIENT_IP\fP]:[\fISERVER_IP\fP]:[\fIGATEWAY_IP\fP]:[\fINETMASK\fP]:[\fIHOSTNAME\fP]:[\fIAUTOCONF\fP]]" 4
Let you specify the name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should
be configured at boot time. Do not specify this if you want to use dhcp
(default). It will be changed in a future release to mimick official kernel
If this variable is set, dhcp and static configuration are just skipped and
the system will use the (must be) media\-preconfigured
/etc/network/interfaces instead.
-.IP "{\fBkeyb\fP|\fBkbd\-chooser/method\fP}=\fIKEYBOARD\fP, {\fBklayout\fP|\fBconsole\-setup/layoutcode\fP}=\fILAYOUT\fP, {\fBkvariant\fP|\fBconsole\-setup/variantcode\fP}=\fIVARIANT\fP, {\fBkmodel\fP\fI|\fP\fBconsole\-setup/modelcode\fP}=\fICODE\fP, \fBkoptions\fP=\fIOPTIONS\fP" 4
-Configure the running keyboard as specified, if this one misses live\-boot
-behaves as if "keyb=us" was specified. It will be interfered from "locale="
-if locale is only 2 lowecase letters as a special case. You could also
-specify console layout, variant, code, and options (no defaults).
-.IP \fBlive\-getty\fP 4
-This changes the auto\-login on virtual terminals to use the (experimental)
-live\-getty code. With this option set the standard kernel argument
-"console=" is parsed and if a serial console is specified then live\-getty is
-used to autologin on the serial console.
.IP {\fBlive\-media\fP|\fBbootfrom\fP}=\fIDEVICE\fP 4
If you specify one of this two equivalent forms, live\-boot will first try to
find this device for the "/live" directory where the read\-only root
.IP \fBlive\-media\-timeout\fP=\fISECONDS\fP 4
Set the timeout in seconds for the device specified by "live\-media=" to
become ready before giving up.
-.IP {\fBlocale\fP|\fBdebian\-installer/locale\fP}=\fILOCALE\fP 4
-Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live\-media
-rootfs configured locale will be used and if also this one misses live\-boot
-behave as "locale=en_US.UTF\-8" was specified. If only 2 lowercase letter are
-specified (like "it"), the "maybe wanted" locale is generated (like
-en:EN.UTF\-8), in this case if also "keyb=" is unspecified is set with those
-2 lowercase letters (keyb=us). Beside that facility, only UTF8 locales are
-supported by live\-boot.
.IP \fBmodule\fP=\fINAME\fP 4
Instead of using the default optional file "filesystem.module" (see below)
another file could be specified without the extension ".module"; it should
filesystem. With no args, will try cifs first, and if it fails nfs.
.IP \fBnfsopts\fP= 4
This lets you specify custom nfs options.
-.IP \fBnoautologin\fP 4
-This parameter disables the automatic terminal login only, not touching
-gdk/kdm.
-.IP \fBnoxautologin\fP 4
-This parameter disables the automatic login of gdm/kdm only, not touching
-terminals.
.IP \fBnofastboot\fP 4
This parameter disables the default disabling of filesystem checks in
/etc/fstab. If you have static filesystems on your harddisk and you want
has been installed with persistent enabled.
.IP \fBnoprompt\fP 4
Do not prompt to eject the CD or remove the USB flash drive on reboot.
-.IP \fBnosudo\fP 4
-This parameter disables the automatic configuration of sudo.
+.IP \fBnoprompt\fP=\fITYPE\fP 4
+This tells live\-boot not to prompt to eject the CD (when noprompt=cd) or
+remove the USB flash drive (when noprompt=usb) on reboot.
+.IP \fBramdisk\-size\fP 4
+This parameters allows to set a custom ramdisk size (it's the '\-o size'
+option of tmpfs mount). By default, there is no ramdisk size set, so the
+default of mount applies (currently 50% of available RAM). Note that this
+option has no currently no effect when booting with toram.
.IP \fBswapon\fP 4
This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions.
-.IP \fBnouser\fP 4
-This parameter disables the creation of the default user completely.
-.IP \fBnoxautoconfig\fP 4
-This parameter disables Xorg auto\-reconfiguration at boot time. This is
-valuable if you either do the detection on your own, or, if you want to ship
-a custom, premade xorg.conf in your live system.
-.IP \fBpersistent\fP[=nofiles] 4
+.IP \fBpersistent\fP[={nofiles|cryptsetup}] 4
live\-boot will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled
"live\-rw", "home\-rw", and files called "live\-sn*", "home\-sn*" and will try
to, in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just
copy the contents of the latter in appropriate locations
(snapshots). Snapshots will be tried to be updated on reboot/shutdown. Look
-at live\-snapshot(1) for more informations. If "nofiles" is specified, only
-filesystems with matching labels will be searched; no filesystems will be
-traversed looking for archives or image files. This results in shorter boot
-times.
+at live\-snapshot(1) for more informations.
+.br
+If "nofiles" is specified, only filesystems with matching labels will be
+searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for archives or image
+files. This results in shorter boot times.
+.br
+If "cryptsetup" is specified, filesystems stored on Luks\-encrypted devices
+will be considered as well as others when searching for a persistence
+filesystem; the user will be prompted for any needed decryption passphrase.
+.IP \fBpersistent\-media\fP={\fIremovable\fP|\fIremovable\-usb\fP} 4
+If you specify the keyword 'removable', live\-boot will try to find
+persistent and snapshot partitions on removable media only. Note that if you
+want to further restrict the media to usb mass storage only, you can use the
+\&'removable\-usb' keyword.
.IP \fBpersistent\-path\fP=\fIPATH\fP 4
live\-boot will look for persistency files in the root directory of a
partition, with this parameter, the path can be configured so that you can
have multiple directories on the same partition to store persistency files.
+.IP \fBpersistent\-subtext\fP=\fISUFFIX\fP 4
+Add a suffix when searching for the image filenames or partition labels to
+use for the above mentioned persistent feature, the SUFFIX will be added
+after a dash (e.g.: "live\-sn" would transform to "live\-sn\-SUFFIX"). This is
+handy to test multiple live\-boot based live\-systems with different
+persistent storage choices.
.IP {\fBpreseed/file\fP|\fBfile\fP}=\fIFILE\fP 4
A path to a file present on the rootfs could be used to preseed debconf
database.
.IP \fBsilent\fP 4
If you boot with the normal quiet parameter, live\-boot hides most messages
of its own. When adding silent, it hides all.
-.IP \fBtextonly\fP 4
-Start up to text\-mode shell prompts, disabling the graphical user interface.
-.IP \fBtimezone\fP=\fITIMEZONE\fP 4
-By default, timezone is set to UTC. Using the timezone parameter, you can
-set it to your local zone, e.g. Europe/Zurich.
.IP \fBtodisk\fP=\fIDEVICE\fP 4
Adding this parameter, live\-boot will try to copy the entire read\-only media
to the specified device before mounting the root filesystem. It probably
to the computer's RAM before mounting the root filesystem. This could need a
lot of ram, according to the space used by the read\-only media.
.IP \fBunion\fP=aufs|unionfs 4
+.\" FIXME
By default, live\-boot uses aufs. With this parameter, you can switch to
unionfs.
-.IP \fButc\fP=yes|no 4
-By default, Debian systems do assume that the hardware clock is set to
-UTC. You can change or explicitly set it with this parameter.
-.IP \fBxdebconf\fP 4
-Uses xdebconfigurator, if present on the rootfs, to configure X instead of
-the standard procedure (experimental).
-.IP \fBxvideomode\fP=\fIRESOLUTION\fP 4
-.\" FIXME
-Doesn't do xorg autodetection, but enforces a given resolution.
.\" FIXME
.SH "FILES (old)"
.SH DATEIEN
.IP \fB/etc/live/boot.conf\fP 4
-.IP \fB/etc/live/boot.conf.d/\fP 4
+.IP \fB/etc/live/boot.d/\fP 4
.IP \fBlive/boot.conf\fP 4
-.IP \fBlive/boot.conf.d/\fP 4
+.IP \fBlive/boot.d/\fP 4
.SH "SIEHE AUCH"
\fIlive\-snapshot\fP(1)
.PP
+\fIlive\-build\fP(7)
+.PP
\fIlive\-config\fP(7)
.PP
-\fIlive\-helper\fP(7)
+\fIlive\-tools\fP(7)
.SH HOMEPAGE
Weitere Informationen ueber live\-boot und das Debian Live Projekt koennen
projects / live-boot-grml.git / blobdiff