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 eb2e302..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*::
 
@@ -183,9 +191,9 @@ Do not prompt to eject the CD on reboot.
 
 This parameter disables the automatic configuration of sudo.
 
-  noswap::
+  swapon::
 
-This parameter disables usage of local swap partitions.
+This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions.
 
   nouser::
 
@@ -197,14 +205,22 @@ 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.
 
-  persistent::
+  persistent[=nofiles]::
 
 live-initramfs 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.
+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.
+
+  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**::
 
@@ -229,6 +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.
@@ -288,6 +309,18 @@ in this file will be the "lowest" point in the aufs, and the last file in
 this list will be on the "top" of the aufs, directly below /cow.  Without
 this file, any images in the "/live" directory are loaded in alphanumeric order.
 
+ /etc/live-persistence.binds
+
+This optional file (which resides in the rootfs system, not in the live media)
+is used as a list of directories which not need be persistent: ie. their
+content does not need to survive reboots when using the persistence features.
+
+This saves expensive writes and speeds up operations on volatile data such as
+web caches and temporary files (like e.g. /tmp and .mozilla) which are
+regenerated each time. This is achieved by bind mounting each listed directory
+with a tmpfs on the original path.
+
+
 See also
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