X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fde%2Flive-boot.de.7;h=f8119409eb640d2ff19698ce1e0702fc52e38df6;hb=018cf49fff4a5dae38fe11eacc565f30197a6faf;hp=f988c9d0935d0848fe137acc1f717c19b9d3b343;hpb=4ae0534fc9dd76b58c263b300958e8515ec80cba;p=live-boot-grml.git diff --git a/manpages/de/live-boot.de.7 b/manpages/de/live-boot.de.7 index f988c9d..f811940 100644 --- a/manpages/de/live-boot.de.7 +++ b/manpages/de/live-boot.de.7 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" This file was generated with po4a. Translate the source file. .\" .\"******************************************************************* -.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 30.05.2010 2.0~a3 "Debian Live Projekt" +.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 17.06.2010 2.0~a10 "Debian Live Projekt" .SH NAME \fBlive\-boot\fP \- System Boot Skripte @@ -54,10 +54,22 @@ Set the default console to be used with the "live\-getty" option. Example: "console=ttyS0,115200" .IP \fBdebug\fP 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\fP=\fIURL\fP 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\fP=\fIURL\fP 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. .br Not working: http://example.com/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs .br @@ -66,6 +78,20 @@ 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. +.br +You may also use the live iso image in place of the squashfs image. +.IP \fBiscsi\fP=\fIserver\-ip[,server\-port];target\-name\fP 4 +Boot from an iSCSI target that has an iso or disk live image as one of its +LUNs. The specified target is searched for a LUN which looks like a live +media. If you use the \fBiscsitarget\fP software iSCSI target solution which is +packaged in Debian your ietd.conf might look like this: +.br +# The target\-name you specify in the iscsi= parameter +.br +Target + Lun 0 Path=,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 \fBignore_uuid\fP 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 @@ -84,16 +110,6 @@ boot param specification 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\fP|\fBkbd\-chooser/method\fP}=\fIKEYBOARD\fP, {\fBklayout\fP|\fBconsole\-setup/layoutcode\fP}=\fILAYOUT\fP, {\fBkvariant\fP|\fBconsole\-setup/variantcode\fP}=\fIVARIANT\fP, {\fBkmodel\fP\fI|\fP\fBconsole\-setup/modelcode\fP}=\fICODE\fP, \fBkoptions\fP=\fIOPTIONS\fP" 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\fP 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\fP|\fBbootfrom\fP}=\fIDEVICE\fP 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 @@ -142,10 +158,6 @@ has been installed with persistent enabled. Do not prompt to eject the CD or remove the USB flash drive on reboot. .IP \fBswapon\fP 4 This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions. -.IP \fBnoxautoconfig\fP 4 -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. .IP \fBpersistent\fP[=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 @@ -178,8 +190,6 @@ installation. .IP \fBsilent\fP 4 If you boot with the normal quiet parameter, live\-boot hides most messages of its own. When adding silent, it hides all. -.IP \fBtextonly\fP 4 -Start up to text\-mode shell prompts, disabling the graphical user interface. .IP \fBtodisk\fP=\fIDEVICE\fP 4 Adding this parameter, live\-boot will try to copy the entire read\-only media to the specified device before mounting the root filesystem. It probably @@ -191,14 +201,9 @@ Adding this parameter, live\-boot will try to copy the whole read\-only media to the computer's RAM before mounting the root filesystem. This could need a lot of ram, according to the space used by the read\-only media. .IP \fBunion\fP=aufs|unionfs 4 +.\" FIXME By default, live\-boot uses aufs. With this parameter, you can switch to unionfs. -.IP \fBxdebconf\fP 4 -Uses xdebconfigurator, if present on the rootfs, to configure X instead of -the standard procedure (experimental). -.IP \fBxvideomode\fP=\fIRESOLUTION\fP 4 -.\" FIXME -Doesn't do xorg autodetection, but enforces a given resolution. .\" FIXME .SH "FILES (old)"