X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Flive-initramfs.en.7.txt;h=c1dcd5b3e6c4e22b682d6be1fb4bbb93ac3f7e49;hb=4fc648acc4e010fe0c3046baeb26ec1334c16e27;hp=799c1d7ef87302cd6cb1fd7668b55291de3a317e;hpb=80b78321a5a2ceaef27193a5804f27ac56a1a8a7;p=live-boot-grml.git diff --git a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt index 799c1d7..c1dcd5b 100644 --- a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt +++ b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt @@ -54,7 +54,15 @@ 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*:: @@ -205,8 +213,14 @@ 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 snapshot files. -This results in shorter boot times. +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**:: @@ -231,6 +245,11 @@ 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.