-.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 2010\-06\-08 2.0~a6 "Debian Live Project"
+.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 2011\-07\-13 3.0~a19 "Debian Live Project"
.SH NAME
\fBlive\-boot\fR \- System Boot Scripts
In addition, there are some more boot parameters to influence the behaviour, see below.
.SS Configuration Files
-\fBlive\-boot\fR 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/).
+\fBlive\-boot\fR 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.d/), or on the live media (live/boot.conf, live/boot.d/).
.SH OPTIONS
\fBlive\-boot\fR currently features the following parameters.
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\fR=\fI/PATH/TO/IMAGE\fI" 4
+Allows to use a filesystem from within an iso image that's available on live-media.
.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
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\fR=[\fICLIENT_IP\fR]:[\fISERVER_IP\fR]:[\fIGATEWAY_IP\fR]:[\fINETMASK\fR]:[\fIHOSTNAME\fR]:[\fIDEVICE\fR]:[\fIAUTOCONF\fR] [,[\fICLIENT_IP\fR]:[\fISERVER_IP\fR]:[\fIGATEWAY_IP\fR]:[\fINETMASK\fR]:[\fIHOSTNAME\fR]:[\fIDEVICE\fR]:[\fIAUTOCONF\fR]]" 4
+.IP "\fBip\fR=[\fIDEVICE\fR]:[\fICLIENT_IP\fR]:[\fISERVER_IP\fR]:[\fIGATEWAY_IP\fR]:[\fINETMASK\fR]:[\fIHOSTNAME\fR]:[\fIAUTOCONF\fR] [,[\fIDEVICE\fR]:[\fICLIENT_IP\fR]:[\fISERVER_IP\fR]:[\fIGATEWAY_IP\fR]:[\fINETMASK\fR]:[\fIHOSTNAME\fR]:[\fIAUTOCONF\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.
disables the "persistent" feature, useful if the bootloader (like syslinux) has been installed with persistent enabled.
.IP "\fBnoprompt\fR" 4
Do not prompt to eject the CD or remove the USB flash drive on reboot.
+.IP "\fBnoprompt\fR=\fITYPE\fR" 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\fR" 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\fR" 4
This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions.
-.IP "\fBpersistent\fR[=nofiles]" 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.
+.IP "\fBpersistent\fR[={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.
+.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\-path\fR=\fIPATH\fR" 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\fR=\fISUFFIX\fR" 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\fR|\fBfile\fR}=\fIFILE\fR" 4
A path to a file present on the rootfs could be used to preseed debconf database.
.IP "\fBpackage/question\fR=\fIVALUE\fR" 4
.SH FILES
.IP "\fB/etc/live/boot.conf\fR" 4
-.IP "\fB/etc/live/boot.conf.d/\fR" 4
+.IP "\fB/etc/live/boot.d/\fR" 4
.IP "\fBlive/boot.conf\fR" 4
-.IP "\fBlive/boot.conf.d/\fR" 4
+.IP "\fBlive/boot.d/\fR" 4
.SH SEE ALSO
\fIlive\-snapshot\fR(1)
.PP
+\fIlive\-build\fR(7)
+.PP
\fIlive\-config\fR(7)
.PP
-\fIlive\-helper\fR(7)
+\fIlive\-tools\fR(7)
.SH HOMEPAGE
More information about live\-boot and the Debian Live project can be found on the homepage at <\fIhttp://live.debian.net/\fR> and in the manual at <\fIhttp://live.debian.net/manual/\fR>.
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