Adding silent boot parameter.

[live-boot-grml.git] / manpages / live-initramfs.en.7.txt

diff --git a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt
index 799c1d7..c1dcd5b 100644 (file)
--- a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt
+++ b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,15 @@ Makes initramfs boot process more verbose.
   fetch=*URL*::
 
 Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url,
-copying to ram and booting it.
+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.
+
+Not working: http://example.com/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs
+Working: http://1.2.3.4/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs
+
+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.
 
   hostname=*HOSTNAME*, username=*USER*, userfullname=*USERFULLNAME*::
 
@@ -205,8 +213,14 @@ 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 snapshot files.
-This results in shorter boot times.
+will be searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for archives or image
+files. This results in shorter boot times.
+
+  persistent-path=PATH
+
+live-initramfs 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.
 
   {preseed/file|file}=**FILE**::
 
@@ -231,6 +245,11 @@ This parameter will make live-initramfs to show on "/" the ro filesystems
 lead to problems by applications like "mono" which store binary paths on
 installation.
 
+  silent
+
+If you boot with the normal quiet parameter, live-initramfs hides most messages
+of its own. When adding silent, it hides all.
+
   textonly
 
 Start up to text-mode shell prompts, disabling the graphical user interface.