X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fen%2Flive-boot.7;h=c82d887d40e1184c23782b6749f8925f6de7368f;hb=b00a077e73253ea4f73db9de6cd4a72a1aa53d52;hp=2e74e1bdcf48d88fb85fbd4a82bb47d03fdda28a;hpb=9f8c8c3c1f7c8f351e56752fe3de8c23c7975c49;p=live-boot-grml.git diff --git a/manpages/en/live-boot.7 b/manpages/en/live-boot.7 index 2e74e1b..c82d887 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\-25 2.0.6 "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 @@ -102,6 +104,8 @@ This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions. 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 live\-boot 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. +.IP "\fBpersistent\-subtext\fR=\fISUFFIX\fR" 4 +Add a suffix when searching for the image filenames or partition labels to use for the above mentioned persistent feature, the SUFFIX will be added after a dash (e.g.: "live-sn" would transform to "live-sn-SUFFIX"). This is handy to test multiple live-boot based live-systems with different persistent storage choices. .IP "{\fBpreseed/file\fR|\fBfile\fR}=\fIFILE\fR" 4 A path to a file present on the rootfs could be used to preseed debconf database. .IP "\fBpackage/question\fR=\fIVALUE\fR" 4 @@ -134,16 +138,16 @@ 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>.