X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fen%2Flive-boot.7;h=d5041be2bbdc9e3d5ee49dacd6089a4671979168;hb=refs%2Ftags%2Fupstream%2F3.0_a13;hp=f424f25ed0621ea4aa0998594a3f4b188ee09dd6;hpb=d25b8fb8b97a5a1fc549fc60b0f79286eb8d3243;p=live-boot-grml.git diff --git a/manpages/en/live-boot.7 b/manpages/en/live-boot.7 index f424f25..d5041be 100644 --- a/manpages/en/live-boot.7 +++ b/manpages/en/live-boot.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 2010\-09\-06 3.0~a5 "Debian Live Project" +.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 2010\-12\-06 3.0~a13 "Debian Live Project" .SH NAME \fBlive\-boot\fR \- System Boot Scripts @@ -98,12 +98,22 @@ This parameter disables the default disabling of filesystem checks in /etc/fstab disables the "persistent" feature, useful if the bootloader (like syslinux) has been installed with persistent enabled. .IP "\fBnoprompt\fR" 4 Do not prompt to eject the CD or remove the USB flash drive on reboot. +.IP "\fBnoprompt\fR=\fITYPE\fR" 4 +This tells live-boot not to prompt to eject the CD (when noprompt=cd) or remove the USB flash drive (when noprompt=usb) on reboot. +.IP "\fBramdisk\-size\fR" 4 +This parameters allows to set a custom ramdisk size (it's the '\-o size' option of tmpfs mount). By default, there is no ramdisk size set, so the default of mount applies (currently 50% of available RAM). Note that this option has no currently no effect when booting with toram. .IP "\fBswapon\fR" 4 This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions. -.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\fR[={nofiles|cryptsetup}]" 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. +.br +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. +.br +If "cryptsetup" is specified, filesystems stored on Luks\-encrypted devices will be considered as well as others when searching for a persistence filesystem; the user will be prompted for any needed decryption passphrase. .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