Releasing debian version 1.236.2-1.

[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 de8a67c..f68e87c 100644 (file)
--- a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt
+++ b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 live-initramfs(7)
 =================
+:man source: 1.157.3
+:man manual: Debian Live
 
 Name
 ----
@@ -54,7 +56,15 @@ 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*::
 
@@ -79,7 +89,7 @@ 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[=**frommedia**]::
+  ip=[**frommedia**]::
 
 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
@@ -106,6 +116,11 @@ 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.
 
+Instead of specifing an actual device name, the keyword 'removable' can be used
+to limit the search of acceptable live media to removable type only. Note that
+if you want to further restrict the media to usb mass storage only, you can use
+the 'removable-usb' keyword.
+
   {live-media-encryption|encryption}=**TYPE**::
 
 live-initramfs will mount the encrypted rootfs TYPE, asking the passphrase,
@@ -177,7 +192,7 @@ been installed with persistent enabled.
 
   noprompt
 
-Do not prompt to eject the CD on reboot.
+Do not prompt to eject the CD or remove the USB flash drive on reboot.
 
   nosudo::
 
@@ -208,6 +223,12 @@ 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**::
 
 A path to a file present on the rootfs could be used to preseed debconf
@@ -231,6 +252,11 @@ 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.