X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fen%2Flive-boot.7;h=4556b6bab677f71fb7e2ec9620c2b892ad03011e;hb=6c206df22facdc678b0127128d7fb585519e926b;hp=9097ca7d6b2127a45115611462889539787feaca;hpb=6c01f4c4938d114b9011db75a7006c724329f4c3;p=live-boot-grml.git diff --git a/manpages/en/live-boot.7 b/manpages/en/live-boot.7 index 9097ca7..4556b6b 100644 --- a/manpages/en/live-boot.7 +++ b/manpages/en/live-boot.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 2010\-06\-08 2.0~a6 "Debian Live Project" +.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 2010\-09\-02 2.0.2 "Debian Live Project" .SH NAME \fBlive\-boot\fR \- System Boot Scripts @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ At boot time it will look for a (read\-only) media containing a "/live" director 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. @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ 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 "\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 @@ -98,8 +100,6 @@ disables the "persistent" feature, useful if the bootloader (like syslinux) has Do not prompt to eject the CD or remove the USB flash drive on reboot. .IP "\fBswapon\fR" 4 This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions. -.IP "\fBnoxautoconfig\fR" 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\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\-path\fR=\fIPATH\fR" 4 @@ -114,18 +114,12 @@ This option causes live\-boot to reboot without attempting to eject the media an This parameter will make live\-boot to show on "/" the ro filesystems (mostly compressed) on "/live". This is not enabled by default because could lead to problems by applications like "mono" which store binary paths on installation. .IP "\fBsilent\fR" 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\fR" 4 -Start up to text\-mode shell prompts, disabling the graphical user interface. .IP "\fBtodisk\fR=\fIDEVICE\fR" 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 needs a lot of free space. Subsequent boots should then skip this step and just specify the "live\-media=DEVICE" boot parameter with the same DEVICE used this time. .IP "\fBtoram\fR" 4 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\fR=aufs|unionfs\fR" 4 By default, live\-boot uses aufs. With this parameter, you can switch to unionfs. -.IP "\fBxdebconf\fR" 4 -Uses xdebconfigurator, if present on the rootfs, to configure X instead of the standard procedure (experimental). -.IP "\fBxvideomode\fR=\fIRESOLUTION\fR" 4 -Doesn't do xorg autodetection, but enforces a given resolution. .\" FIXME .\" FIXME @@ -142,16 +136,16 @@ This saves expensive writes and speeds up operations on volatile data such as we .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\-config\fR(7) +\fIlive\-build\fR(7) .PP -\fIlive\-helper\fR(7) +\fIlive\-config\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>.