-.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 2010\-06\-02 2.0~a4 "Debian Live Project"
+.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 2010\-06\-08 2.0~a6 "Debian Live Project"
.SH NAME
\fBlive\-boot\fR \- System Boot Scripts
Set the default console to be used with the "live\-getty" option. Example: "console=ttyS0,115200"
.IP "\fBdebug\fR" 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\fR=\fIURL\fR" 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\fR=\fIURL\fR" 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.
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Not working: http://example.com/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs
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Working: http://1.2.3.4/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs
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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.
+.br
+You may also use the live iso image in place of the squashfs image.
.IP "\fBignore_uuid\fR" 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 LIVE_GENERATE_UUID=1 when building the initramfs.
.IP "\fBintegrity\-check\fR" 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 boot param specification (e.g. ip=10.0.0.1::10.0.0.254:255.255.255.0::eth0,:::::eth1:dhcp).
.IP "\fBip\fR=[\fIfrommedia\fR]" 4
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\fR|\fBkbd\-chooser/method\fR}=\fIKEYBOARD\fR, {\fBklayout\fR|\fBconsole\-setup/layoutcode\fR}=\fILAYOUT\fR, {\fBkvariant\fR|\fBconsole\-setup/variantcode\fR}=\fIVARIANT\fR, {\fBkmodel\fI|\fBconsole\-setup/modelcode\fR}=\fICODE\fR, \fBkoptions\fR=\fIOPTIONS\fR" 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\fR" 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\fR|\fBbootfrom\fR}=\fIDEVICE\fR" 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 filesystem should reside. If it did not find something usable, the normal scan for block devices is performed.
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