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109     <p>Booting a linux system means loading a kernel, which is actually the operating system. Well, this is not exactly true, and it is not the only thing that happens during boot up phase, but it is not my intension to explain it here.
110     <br><br>
111     The kernel is loaded by Isolinux (the CD boot manager), which is able to pass a number of parameters to it, through its configuration file <b>isolinux.cfg</b>.
112     <br><br>
113     These parameters, called boot parameters, are documented by the kernel itself, and can differentiate its behavior dramatically. In our case, each CD (SystemRescueCD and Clonezilla Live) accept a different set of parameters, because they are based on <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/" target="_blank">gentoo</a> and <a href="http://www.debian.org/" target="_blank">debian</a>, respectively.
114     <br><br>
115     While in the splash screen of <b>Clonezilla-SysRescCD</b>, you can edit the boot parameters by pressing TAB. They will be presented to you, and you can add or remove what you want. You must be careful not to change or remove the parameters that are dedicated to the CD itself, as altering them will certainty make it unbootable. When you are done, just press ENTER to boot.
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123 sng 75 The following info applies to <b>SystemRescueCD v. 1.5.5</b>. In case<br>
124 sng 28 you need to get info for a more recent version of <b>SystemRescueCD</b><br>
125     please see the page "<a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Booting_the_CD-ROM" target="_blank">Sysresccd-manual-en Booting the CD-ROM</a>"
126     </td></tr></table></div>
127     <p>A typical sysresccd isolinux entry is:</p>
128    
129     <p class="newcode">kernel rescuecd<br>
130     append initrd=initram.igz video=ofonly</p>
131     <!--empty-line-->
132     <p>The kernel used is <b>rescuecd</b>, and anything after the word <b>append</b> is a boot parameter.<br><br>
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134     Available kernels (boot images):</p>
135    
136     <ul class="otherpage" style="padding: 0px 10px 20px 40px">
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138     <!-- SysRescCD documentation section. Please use "update-boot-params" script to update -->
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140     <li><b>rescuecd</b> Default for 32bit systems, with Framebuffer disabled, best choice.
141     </li><li><b>rescue64</b> Default 64 bit kernel. Use it if you want to chroot to a 64bit linux system installed on your hard disk, or if you have to run 64 bits programs. This kernel is able to boot with 32bit programs, and it requires a processor with 64bit instructions (amd64 / em64t).
142     </li><li><b>altker32</b> an alternative kernel for 32bit systems. Boot with this kernel if you have problems with <b>rescuecd</b>
143     </li><li><b>altker64</b> an alternative kernel for 64bit systems. Boot with this kernel in case you have problems with <b>rescue64</b>.
144     </li>
145 sng 28 </ul>
146    
147     <p><br>The boot parameters you can use are:</p>
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152 sng 56 <a name="General_boot_options" id="General_boot_options"></a><p><b> General boot options</b></p>
153 sng 75 <p>Press &lt;TAB&gt; to add additional options (in SystemRescueCd-1.5 and more recent)
154 sng 40 </p>
155     <ul><li><b>docache</b>: causes the CD-ROM will be fully loaded into memory. A slower start but once complete, programs start faster and the CD drive will be released allowing normal access to other CDs. This requires 400MB of memory to cache everything (including the <code>bootdisks</code> and <code>isolinux</code> directories). Add <code>lowmem</code> if you have less that 400MB of memory of to prevent these directories to be copied.
156 sng 75 </li><li><b>setkmap=kk</b>: which defines the keymap to load where <code>kk</code> (example: <code>setkmap=de</code> for German keyboards). This way you won't be prompted for the keyboard configuration during the boot.
157 sng 56 </li><li><b>root=/dev/xdnp</b>: the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/05/use-systemrescuecd-to-boot-a-linux-os-from-the-hard-disk/" class="external text" title="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/05/use-systemrescuecd-to-boot-a-linux-os-from-the-hard-disk/" rel="nofollow">root=&lt;device&gt; option</a> boots an existing linux system. For example, if you have linux Gentoo installed on <code>/dev/sda6</code>, use <code>rescuecd root=/dev/sda6</code> to start it. Keep in mind that you must use a 64bit kernel if your system is made of 64bit programs. This option works with LVM volumes. Use <code>rescuecd root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00</code>. Support is also provided for <code>root=auto</code>, which scans all the block devices tfor a linux system. The first linux system found will be started. So with <code>root=auto</code> let you start the system installed from the CD-ROM in case you have problem with your boot loader or kernel. It's also possible to specify a partition using its <code>filesystem label</code> or <code>filesystem uuid</code>. If the label of the partition where linux is installed is <code>mylinux</code>, then boot it using <code>rescuecd root=LABEL=mylinux</code>. Similarly <code>root=UUID=b3d3bec5-997a-413e-8449-0d0ec41ccba7</code>. See <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/05/use-systemrescuecd-to-boot-a-linux-os-from-the-hard-disk/" class="external text" title="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/05/use-systemrescuecd-to-boot-a-linux-os-from-the-hard-disk/" rel="nofollow">more details</a>.
158 sng 40 </li><li><b>initscript=service:action</b>: This options allows start/stop a service at boot time. For instance if you need the samba service to be started, you can boot with: <code>initscript=samba:start</code>. This does the same thing as <code>/etc/init.d/samba start</code>. Use this option multiple times for different services. All the actions that are supported by an initscript can be used.
159 sng 56 </li><li><b>backstore=xxx</b>: SystemRescueCd comes with support for the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/29/creating-a-backing-store-to-keep-your-modifications-in-sysresccd/" class="external text" title="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/29/creating-a-backing-store-to-keep-your-modifications-in-sysresccd/" rel="nofollow">backing-stores</a>. A backing-store saves all the changes you can make. so that you keep these changes the next time you boot it. By default, sysresccd automatically scan removable devices (eg: USB sticks) at boot time and uses the first backing-store it finds. A backing-store is not mandatory and it the scan fails it will store the files which change in memory. To disable the disks scan at boot time specify <code>backstore=off</code> on the boot command line. If you want to save your backing-store file on an harddisk, boot with <code>backstore=alldev</code> to scan all devices (not just removable devices). The default location for backing-stores file is any file named <code>sysrcd.bs</code> located at the root of a disk which is often an USB stick. Change the path by using <code>backstore=/sysrcd/mybackstore.bs</code>. See <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/29/creating-a-backing-store-to-keep-your-modifications-in-sysresccd/" class="external text" title="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/29/creating-a-backing-store-to-keep-your-modifications-in-sysresccd/" rel="nofollow">backing-stores</a>.
160     </li><li><b>isoloop=xxx</b>: Grub2 (currently in development: grub-1.98) provides a new feature to boot from an ISO image which is stored from the hard disk. If you put a copy of <code>systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.iso</code> on a partition that Grub2 can read then you can boot SystemRescueCd directly from the ISO image stored on your hard drive. This is very convenient if you frequently update SystemRescueCd and you want to boot it directly from Grub2. Grub2 knows what an ISO image is and it will load the kernel image (rescuecd/rescue64) and the initramfs (initram.igz) from the ISO into memory. It will then do its normal job and execute the kernel. The SystemRescueCd init script must then be aware that its <code>sysrcd.dat</code> file is in an ISO and not directly on the partition. For that reason, this <code>isoloop=xxx</code> boot option is required so you must use it in your <code>grub.cfg</code>. This option is only supported in SystemRescueCd-1.4.0 and more recent. This option specifies the path of the ISO image in the partition that grub considers as its root partition. It's important to understand that the path of the ISO image may be different from the path on your linux system. If you have a separate boot partition mounted on <code>/boot</code> and if you copy this ISO image to <code>/boot/sysrcd/systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.iso</code> then the option has to be <code>isoloop=/sysrcd/systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.iso</code>. This is because the boot partition is what Grub2 will consider as its root partition during the boot process. Please read <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Easy_install_SystemRescueCd_on_harddisk#Boot_the_ISO_image_from_the_disk_using_Grub2" title="Sysresccd-manual-en Easy install SystemRescueCd on harddisk">the section about isoloop</a> for more details.
161 sng 28 </li></ul>
162 sng 56 <a name="Hardware.2C_drivers_and_troubleshooting_options" id="Hardware.2C_drivers_and_troubleshooting_options"></a><p><b><br> Hardware, drivers and troubleshooting options</b></p>
163 sng 40 <ul><li><b>dodebug</b>: Enables verbose messages in linuxrc
164     </li></ul>
165 sng 75 <ul><li><b>doload=xxx</b>: loads needed kernel modules, multiple comma separated occurrences are permitted (example: <code>doload=3c59x,e1000</code>)
166     </li><li><b>noload=xxx</b>: prevents loading kernel modules, multiple comma separated occurrences are permitted (example: <code>noload=3c59x,e1000</code>). Use this option if you have a problem when the system loads a particular module.
167 sng 40 </li><li><b>nonet</b>: this will disable the network auto detection at startup
168     </li></ul>
169     <ul><li><b>scandelay=x</b>: pauses x seconds during the startup to allow slow devices to initialize. This is required when you boot an USB device. A delay of only few seconds should be enough.
170     </li></ul>
171     <ul><li><b>doxdetect</b>: Since version 0.3.5 the auto-configuration is done in X.Org itself, mkxf86config is disabled by default. This option forces the system to run the mkxf86config startup script and to run the hardware auto-detection from this script. Use this option if you have problems with the graphical environment configuration. This option replaces the option <code>noxdetect</code> that was useful in previous versions.
172     </li><li><b>nodetect</b>: prevents generic hardware auto-detection. Use this option if you have problems with the hardware auto-detection.
173     </li></ul>
174     <ul><li><b>dostartx</b>: load the X.Org graphical environment.
175     </li><li><b>forcevesa</b>: Forces X.Org to use the safe VESA driver instead of the best video driver detected for your video card. Use this option if you cannot get the graphical environment working with the default options.
176     </li><li><b>forcevesa=xxx</b>: The <code>startx</code> command will load the <code>Xvesa</code> server instead of <code>Xorg</code>, and use the screen resolution given as parameter (eg: <code>1024x768</code>, <code>1280x1024x32</code>).
177     </li></ul>
178     <ul><li><b>all-generic-ide</b>: In case of problems related to your hard disk, try to enable this option (eg <code>rescuecd all-generic-ide</code>)
179     </li><li><b>nodmraid</b>: Disable dmraid, for some motherboards with built-in RAID controller.
180     </li><li><b>nomdadm</b>: Disable mdadm, for software RAID.
181     </li></ul>
182     <ul><li><b>acpi-off</b> / <b>noapic</b> / <b>irqpool</b>: use these options if you have problem when the kernel boots: if it hangs on a driver or if it crashes, ...
183     </li></ul>
184     <ul><li><b>lowmem</b>: For systems with smaller memory, some daemons are not started including sshd and nfsd.
185     </li></ul>
186     <ul><li><b>skipmount=/dev/xxx</b>: The system mounts all the storage devices at boot time to find the sysrcd.dat file. If your hard disk is broken it should be mounted. Boot with <code>skipmount=/dev/sda1 skipmount=/dev/sda2</code> to ignore these two partitions.
187     </li></ul>
188 sng 56 <a name="Network_configuration_and_remote_access" id="Network_configuration_and_remote_access"></a><p><b><br> Network configuration and remote access</b></p>
189 sng 75 <ul><li><b>nonm</b>: to disable the Network-Manager service that conflicts with the standard network command line tools such as <code>ifconfig</code> and <code>ip</code>. You can use this option if you want to configure the network using these commands. This option is not necessary when SystemRescueCd is booting from the network since the service is automatically stopped in that case. This option requires SystemRescueCd-1.5.5 or more recent.
190     </li><li><b>dodhcp</b>: to request a DHCP server provide network attributes including an IP address, gateway...
191     </li><li><b>nodhcp</b>: never run the dhcp client in the initramfs boot script. May be useful if you use PXE boot on a computer with several ethernet interfaces. Support for this option is available in SystemRescueCd-1.5.5-beta2 and more recent
192 sng 40 </li><li><b>ethx=ipaddr/cidr</b>: Sets the static IP address of all the ethernet interfaces on the system. The <code>/cidr</code> extension is optional. For instance, if you use option <code>ethx=192.168.0.1</code> on a machine with two ethernet adapters, both <code>eth0</code> and <code>eth1</code> will be configured with <code>192.168.0.1</code>. You can use the format <code>ethx=10.0.0.1/24</code> (using the cidr notation) if you don't use the default netmask.
193     </li><li><b>eth0=ipaddr/cidr</b>: This option is similar to <code>ethx=ipaddr/cidr</code> but it configures only one interface at a time. To configure the network on a server that has two interfaces, use: <code>eth0=192.168.10.1/24 eth1=192.168.20.1</code>.
194 sng 28 </li><li><b>dns=ipaddr</b>: Sets the static IP address of the DNS nameserver you want to use to resolve the names. For instance <code>dns=192.168.0.254</code> means that you want to use <code>192.168.0.254</code> as the DNS server.
195     </li><li><b>gateway=ipaddr</b>: Sets the static IP address of the default route on your network. For instance <code>gateway=192.168.0.254</code> means that the computer can connect to a computer outside of the local network via <code>192.168.0.254</code>.
196     </li><li><b>dhcphostname=myhost</b>: Sets the hostname that the DHCP client will send to the DHCP server. This may be required if the default hostname cannot be used with your DHCP configuration. This option has been introduced in SystemRescueCd-1.3.5.
197     </li><li><b>rootpass=123456</b>: Sets the root password of the system running on the livecd to <code>1234</code>. That way you can connect from the network and ssh on the livecd and give <code>123456</code> password as the root password.
198 sng 56 </li><li><b>vncserver=x:123456</b>: The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/04/12/use-systemrescuecd-remotely-with-vnc-server/" class="external text" title="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/04/12/use-systemrescuecd-remotely-with-vnc-server/" rel="nofollow">vncserver boot option</a> has been introduced in SystemRescueCd-1.0.2. This options forces the system to configure the VNC-server and to start it automatically at boot time. You have to replace <code>x</code> with the number of displays you want, and <code>123456</code> with your password The password must be between 5 and 8 characters, else the boot option will be ignored. In other words the <code>vncserver=2:MyPaSsWd</code> option will give you access to two displays (display=1 on tcp/5901 and display=2 on tcp/5902). Display 0 is reserved for X.Org since SystemRescueCd-1.1.0.
199 sng 75 </li><li><b>nameif=xxx</b>: You can can <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/28/option-to-define-the-name-of-a-network-interface-using-the-mac-address/" class="external text" title="http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/06/28/option-to-define-the-name-of-a-network-interface-using-the-mac-address/" rel="nofollow">specify what interface name to give</a> to a particular interface using the mac address. You need SystemRescueCd-1.1.0 or newer to do that. Here is how you can specify which interface is using which mac address on a machine with two network interfaces: <code>nameif=eth0!00:0C:29:57:D0:6E,eth1!00:0C:29:57:D0:64</code>. Be careful, you have to respect the separator (comma between the interfaces and exclamation marks between the name and the mac address). You can also use the magic keyword <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&amp;t=2538&amp;start=0" class="external text" title="http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&amp;t=2538&amp;start=0" rel="nofollow">BOOTIF</a> with SystemRescueCd-1.5.4 and more recent when you boot from pxelinux. The pxeboot loader will set BOOTIF to the name of the interface used to boot. You can then use something like <code>nameif=eth0!BOOTIF</code> if you want the boot interface to be called <code>eth0</code> on a computer with several Ethernet interfaces.
200 sng 28 </li></ul>
201 sng 56 <a name="Network_boot_using_PXE" id="Network_boot_using_PXE"></a><p><b><br> Network boot using PXE</b></p>
202 sng 40 <p>SystemRescueCd provides several options for booting from the network using PXE.
203 sng 56 These options can be combined with other network boot options such as <code>ethx</code> (cf previous section). See <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_PXE_network_booting" class="external text" title="http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_PXE_network_booting" rel="nofollow">PXE network booting</a> to get a global overview of SystemRescueCd and PXE and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Manage_remote_windows_linux_servers_using_SystemRescueCd" class="external text" title="http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Manage_remote_windows_linux_servers_using_SystemRescueCd" rel="nofollow">Manage remote servers using PXE</a>.
204 sng 40 </p><p>The second stage downloads the kernel + initramfs using DHCP/TFTP.
205     </p><p>The third stage of the PXE boot process acquires the root files system.
206     </p><p>Several protocols are available.
207     </p>
208     <ul><li><b>netboot=</b>tftp<b>://ip/path/sysrcd.dat</b>: from a TFTP server. The filesystem is loaded into memory. As a consequence computers with less than 400MB of memory won't be able to boot this way. The system will continue to work if the network is disconnected after the boot process.
209     </li><li><b>netboot=</b>http<b>://ip:port/path/sysrcd.dat</b>: from a Web server. The file system is loaded into memory. Computers with smaller memory won't be able to boot this way. The the system continues to work if the network is disconnected after the boot process.
210     </li><li><b>netboot=</b>nfs<b>://ip:/path</b>: mount an NFSv3 directory. The NFS url must be the path of the directory that contains <code>sysrcd.dat</code>. Only NFSv3 can be used, NFSv4 is not supported. NFS it allows computers with smaller memory to boot SystemRescueCd from the network. After the boot process, the connection is required or you will loose the access to the root file system.
211     </li><li><b>netboot=</b>nbd<b>://ip:port</b>: connect to an NBD server configured with <code>sysrcd.dat</code> on ip:port. NBD is easier to configure than NFS (only one TCP port involved) and it allows computers with smaller memort to boot SystemRescueCd from the network. After the boot process, the connection is required the access to the root system.
212     </li></ul>
213 sng 56 <p>For information on activating <b>speakup</b>, see the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Speakup-info" title="Speakup-info">speakup info page</a>.
214 sng 40 </p>
215 sng 56 <a name="Options_provided_for_autorun" id="Options_provided_for_autorun"></a><p><b><br> Options provided for autorun</b></p>
216     <ul><li><b>ar_source=xxx</b>: place where the autorun are stored. It may be the root directory of a partition (<code>/dev/sda1</code>), an nfs share (<code>nfs://192.168.1.1:/path/to/scripts</code>), a samba share (<code>smb://192.168.1.1/path/to/scripts</code>), or an http directory (<code><a target="_blank" href="http://192.168.1.1/path/to/scripts" class="external free" title="http://192.168.1.1/path/to/scripts" rel="nofollow">http://192.168.1.1/path/to/scripts</a></code>).
217 sng 40 </li><li><b>autoruns=[0-9]</b>: comma separated list of the autorun scrip to be run. For example <code>autoruns=0,2,7</code> the autorun sc <code>autorun0</code>, <code>autorun2</code>, <code>autorun7</code> are run. Use <code>autoruns=no</code> to disable all the autorun scripts with a number.
218 sng 28 </li><li><b>ar_ignorefail</b>: continue to execute the scripts chain even if a script failed (returned a non-zero status)
219     </li><li><b>ar_nodel</b>: do not delete the temporary copy of the autorun scripts located in <code>/var/autorun/tmp</code> after execution
220     </li><li><b>ar_disable</b>: completely disable autorun, the simple <code>autorun</code> script will not be executed
221     </li><li><b>ar_nowait</b>: do not wait for a keypress after the autorun script have been executed.
222     </li></ul>
223 sng 40 </p>
224 sng 28 </div>
225    
226    
227     <!-- Clonezilla -->
228     <H2><a name="clonezilla"></a>Clonezilla Live boot parameters <span class="hideprint">[<a href="#boot-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</span></H2>
229     <!-- note -->
230     <div align="center"><table class="note" border="0" cellpadding="20"><tr valign="top"><td><img src="images/info.png"></td><td>
231 sng 70 The following info applies to <b>Clonezilla Live v. 1.2.5-17</b><br>
232 sng 28 In case you need to get info for a more recent version of <b>Clonezilla Live</b><br>
233     please see the page "<a href="http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/fine-print.php?path=./99_Misc/00_live-initramfs-manual.doc#00_live-initramfs-manual.doc" target="_blank">The boot parameters for Clonezilla live</a>"
234     </td></tr></table></div>
235    
236     <p>A typical Clonezilla Live isolinux entry is:</p>
237    
238     <p class="newcode"> kernel /live/vmlinuz1<br>
239     append initrd=/live/initrd1.img boot=live union=aufs ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general"<br>
240     ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap="" ocs_live_batch="no" ocs_lang="" vga=791 nolocales</p>
241     <!--empty-line-->
242     <p>The kernel used is <b>vmlinuz</b>, and anything after the word <b>append</b> is a boot parameter.</p>
243     <!--empty-line-->
244    
245    
246     <p>The following info comes from the page titled <a href="http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/fine-print.php?path=./99_Misc/00_live-initramfs-manual.doc#00_live-initramfs-manual.doc" target="_blank">The boot parameters for Clonezilla live</a>.</p>
247    
248 sng 40 <!-- Please do not delete these comented lines-->
249     <!-- Clonezilla documentation section. Please use "update-boot-params" script to update -->
250     <!--Clonezilla-Documentation-->
251 sng 56 <div class="otherpage">Clonezilla live is based on <a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/" >Debian live</a> with clonezilla installed. Therefore there are 2 kinds of boot parameters:
252 sng 28 <ol>
253 sng 41 <li>Boot parameters from live-initramfs. You can refer to this <a href="#live-initramfs">manual of live-initramfs</a>.
254 sng 28 <li>Boot parameters specially for Clonezilla. All of them are named as "ocs_*", e.g. ocs_live_run, ocs_live_extra_param, ocs_live_batch, ocs_lang.
255     <ul>
256     <li>ocs_live_run is the main program to run in Clonezilla live to save or restore. or other command. Available program: ocs-live-general, ocs-live-restore or any command you write. Use the Absolute path in Clonezilla live.<br>
257 sng 40 e.g. ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general"<br>
258     <font color="red">//NOTE// You might have to use "sudo" command inside your own script, or you can assign it like: ocs_live_run="sudo bash /my-clonezilla"</font><br>
259 sng 28 <li>ocs_live_extra_param will be used only when ocs_live_run=ocs-live-restore (not for ocs-live-general or any other), then it will be passed to ocs-sr. Therefore these parameters are actually those of ocs-sr.<br>
260     e.g. ocs_live_extra_param="-b -c restoredisk sarge-r5 hda"
261     <li>ocs_live_keymap is for keymap used in Clonezilla live. Man install-keymap for more details.<br>
262     e.g. ocs_live_keymap="NONE" (won't change the default layout)<br>
263     ocs_live_keymap="/usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr-latin9.kmap.gz" (French keyboard)
264     <li>batch mode or not (yes/no), if no, will run interactively.<br>
265     e.g. ocs_live_batch="no"
266     <li>ocs_lang is the language used in Clonezilla live. Available value: en_US.UTF-8, zh_TW.UTF-8... (see $DRBL_SCRIPT_PATH/lang/bash/)
267     e.g. ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8"
268     <li>ocs_debug (or ocs-debug) is for you to enter command line prompt before any clonezilla-related action is run. This is easier for you to debug.
269     <li>ocs_daemonon, ocs_daemonoff, ocs_numlk, ocs_capslk.<br>
270     Ex. for the first 2 parameters, ocs_daemonon="ssh", then ssh service will be turned on when booting. For the last 2 parameters, use "on" or "off", e.g. ocs_numlk=on to turn on numberlock when booting.
271     <li>ocs_prerun, ocs_prerun1, ocs_prerun2... is for you to run a shell script before Clonezilla is started. E.g. ocs_prerun="/live/image/myscript.sh". If you have more commands to run, you can assign them in the order: ocs_prerun=..., ocs_prerun1=..., ocs_prerun2=.... If more than 10 parameters, remember to use ocs_prerun01, ocs_prerun02..., ocs_prerun11 to make it in order.
272 sng 40 <li>ocs_live_run_tty. This option allows you to specify the tty where $ocs_live_run is run. By default $ocs_live_run is run on /dev/tty1 only. (It was also on /dev/ttyS0 before, but since Clonezilla live >= 1.2.3-22 no more this due to a problem). If you want to use ttyS0, for example, add live-getty and console=ttyS0,38400n81 in the boot parameter.<br>
273     <font color=red>//NOTE//</font><br>
274     <ul>
275     <li>This parameter was added in Clonezilla live 1.2.3-22 or later.
276     <li>If "live-getty console=$tty,38400n81" are assigned in the boot parameters, ocs_live_run_tty will honor $tty, even other value is assigned to ocs_live_run_tty in boot parameter.
277     <li>It's recommended to assign ocs_lang and ocs_live_keymap in the boot parameters too.
278     </ul>
279     <li>ip, this option allows you to specify the network parameters for network card. In Clonezilla live a patched live-initramfs is used, which is different from the original live-initramfs so that you can assign DNS server, too. Its format is: ip=ethernet port,IP address, netmask, gateway, DNS. E.g. If you want to assing eth0 with IP address 10.0.100.1, netmask 255.255.255.0, gateway 10.0.100.254, DNS server 8.8.8.8, you can assign the following in the boot parameter:<br>
280     ip=eth0,10.0.100.1,255.255.255.0,10.0.100.254,8.8.8.8<br>
281     If more than one network card, you can use ":" to separate them, e.g.:<br>
282     ip=eth0,10.0.100.1,255.255.255.0,10.0.100.254,8.8.8.8:eth1,192.168.120.1,255.255.255.0,192.168.120.254,,<br>
283 sng 28 <li>Besides, "live-netdev" (yes, not ocs_live_netdev) can be used when using PXE booting, you can force to assign the network device to get filesystem.squashfs. This is useful when there are two or more NICs are linked. E.g. live-netdev="eth1" allows you to force the live-initramfs to use eth1 to fetch the root file system filesystem.squashfs.
284     </ul>
285     </ol>
286     <hr>
287    
288     With the above options, we have the following examples:
289     <ol>
290     <li>A PXE config example for you to boot Clonezilla live via PXE, and ssh service is on, the password of account "user" is assigned:<br>
291     ----------------------------------------<br>
292     label Clonezilla Live<br>
293     MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live<br>
294     MENU DEFAULT<br>
295     kernel vmlinuz1<br>
296     append initrd=initrd1.img boot=live union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 fetch=tftp://192.168.120.254/filesystem.squashfs usercrypted=bkuQxLqLRuDW6 ocs_numlk="on" ocs_daemonon="ssh"<br>
297     ----------------------------------------<br>
298    
299     The usercrypted password is created by:<br>
300     echo YOUR_PASSWORD | mkpasswd -s<br>
301     ("mkpasswd" is from package "whois" in Debian or Ubuntu. Check your GNU/Linux to see which package provides this command if you are not using Debian or Ubuntu. Replace YOUR_PASSWORD with your plain text password, and remember do not put any " in the boot parameters of live-initramfs (while it's ok for those ocs_* boot parameters), i.e. do NOT use something like usercrypted="bkuQxLqLRuDW6").<br>
302     //NOTE// If you do not assign salt to mkpasswd, the encrypted password will not be the same every time you create it.<br>
303     For more about usercrypted discussion, please check the <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2008/10/msg00020.html" target=_blank>here</a>.
304     <br><br>
305     <li>How to put your own binary driver in Clonezilla live without modifying /live/filesystem.squashfs:
306     <ul>
307     <li>Boot clonezilla live
308     <li>Become root by running "sudo su -"
309     <li>Copy the dir lsi, which contains a precompiled kernel module matching the running kernel in Clonezilla live and a script to run it, to a working dir, e.g.: <br>
310     cp -r /live/image/lsi /home/partimag
311     <li>cd /home/partimag
312     <li>/opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-live-dev -c -s -i lsi -u lsi -x "ocs_prerun=/live/image/lsi/prep-lsi.sh"
313     <li>/opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-iso -s -i lsi -u lsi -x "ocs_prerun=/live/image/lsi/prep-lsi.sh"
314     <li>///NOTE/// In this example, the 2 files in dir lsi are: megasr.ko (the binary driver) and prep-lsi.sh. The contents of prep-lsi.sh:
315     <pre>
316     ------------------------
317     #!/bin/bash
318     cp -f /live/image/lsi/megasr.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/block/
319     chown root.root /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/block/megasr.ko
320     depmod -a modprobe megasr
321     sleep 1
322     ------------------------
323     </pre>
324     </ul>
325    
326     <li>To put your customized script with a PXE version of Clonezilla live (You have to use Clonezilla live version 1.2.2-2 or later):<br>
327     In this example, we assume (1) The IP address of your PXE server is 192.168.120.254, (2) the customized script (custom-ocs-2) is put on your PXE server's tftpd root dir (E.g. On DRBL server, the path is /tftpboot/nbi_img/. It might be different in your case if you are not use DRBL server as a PXE server).<br>
328     Therefor your pxelinux.cfg/default file is like:
329     <p>------------------------<br>
330     label Clonezilla Live<br>
331     MENU DEFAULT<br>
332     # MENU HIDE<br>
333     MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live<br>
334     # MENU PASSWD<br>
335     kernel vmlinuz1<br>
336     append initrd=initrd1.img boot=live union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 ip=frommedia fetch=tftp://192.168.120.254/filesystem.squashfs ocs_prerun="busybox tftp -g -b 10240 -r custom-ocs-2 -l /tmp/custom-ocs-2 192.168.120.254" ocs_live_run="bash /tmp/custom-ocs-2" ocs_live_keymap="NONE" ocs_live_batch="no" ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8" nolocales<br>
337     TEXT HELP<br>
338     Boot Clonezilla live via network<br>
339     ENDTEXT<br>
340     <p>------------------------<br>
341     The content of custom-ocs-2 can be like:
342     <pre>
343     ------------------------
344     #!/bin/bash
345     . /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-conf-functions
346     . /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions
347     . /etc/ocs/ocs-live.conf
348    
349     # Load language file
350     ask_and_load_lang_set en_US.UTF-8
351    
352     # 1. Mount the clonezilla image home.
353     # Types: local_dev, ssh_server, samba_server, nfs_server
354     prep-ocsroot -t nfs_server
355    
356     # 2. Restore the image
357     if mountpoint /home/partimag/ &>/dev/null; then
358     ocs-sr -l en_US.UTF-8 -c -p choose restoredisk ask_user ask_user
359     else
360     [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_FAILURE
361     echo "Fail to find the Clonezilla image home /home/partimag!"
362     echo "Program terminated!"
363     [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_NORMAL
364     fi
365     ------------------------
366     </pre>
367     </li>
368     </ol>
369     </div>
370     <!-- End of copy/paste 3 -->
371    
372     <H3><a name="live-initramfs"></a>live-initramfs manual <span class="hideprint">[<a href="#boot-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</span></H3>
373    
374     <p>This is the manual of <a href="http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/live-initramfs-param.php" target=_blank>live-initramfs</a>
375     <BR>
376     </p>
377    
378 sng 56 <!-- Please do not delete these comented lines-->
379     <!-- SysRescCD documentation section. Please use "update-boot-params" script to update -->
380     <!--initramfs-Documentation-->
381     <a name="live-initramfs"></a><div class="otherpage" style="overflow: auto;"><pre>
382 sng 28 live-initramfs(7)
383     =================
384    
385     Name
386     ----
387     live-initramfs - Debian Live initramfs hook
388    
389     Synopsis
390     --------
391     BOOT=live
392    
393     as kernel parameter at boot prompt.
394    
395     Description
396     -----------
397    
398     live-initramfs is a hook for the initramfs-tools, used to generate a initramfs
399     capable to boot live systems, such as those created by *live-helper*(7).
400     This includes the Debian Live isos, netboot tarballs, and usb stick images.
401    
402     At boot time it will look for a (read-only) media containing a "/live"
403     directory where a root filesystems (often a compressed filesystem image like
404     squashfs) is stored. If found, it will create a writable environment, using
405     aufs, for Debian like systems to boot from.
406    
407     You probably do not want to install this package onto a non-live system,
408     although it will do no harm.
409    
410 sng 56 live-initramfs is a fork of <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/casper/" target="_blank">casper</a>.
411     casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen &amp;lt;tfheen@canonical.com&amp;gt;
412     and Matt Zimmerman &amp;lt;mdz@canonical.com&amp;gt;.
413 sng 28
414     Boot options
415     ------------
416    
417     Here is the complete list of recognized boot parameters by live-initramfs.
418    
419 sng 56 access=*ACCESS*::
420 sng 28
421     Set the accessibility level for physically or visually impared users. ACCESS
422     must be one of v1, v2, v3, m1, or m2. v1=lesser visual impairment, v2=moderate
423     visual impairment, v3=blindness, m1=minor motor difficulties, m2=moderate motor
424     difficulties.
425    
426 sng 56 console=*TTY,SPEED*::
427 sng 28
428     Set the default console to be used with the "live-getty" option. Example:
429     "console=ttyS0,115200"
430    
431 sng 56 debug::
432 sng 28
433     Makes initramfs boot process more verbose.
434    
435 sng 56 fetch=*URL*::
436 sng 28
437     Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url,
438     copying to ram and booting it.
439    
440 sng 56 hostname=*HOSTNAME*, username=*USER*, userfullname=*USERFULLNAME*::
441 sng 28
442     Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file.
443    
444 sng 56 ignore_uuid
445 sng 28
446     Do not check that any UUID embedded in the initramfs matches the discovered
447     medium. live-initramfs may be told to generate a UUID by setting
448     LIVE_GENERATE_UUID=1 when building the initramfs.
449    
450 sng 56 integrity-check::
451 sng 28
452     If specified, an MD5 sum is calculated on the live media during boot and
453     compared to the value found in md5sum.txt found in the root directory of the
454     live media.
455    
456 sng 56 ip=**[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:
457     [DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF] [,[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:
458     [DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF]]***::
459 sng 28
460     Let you specify the name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should be
461     configured at boot time. Do not specify this if you want to use dhcp (default).
462     It will be changed in a future release to mimick official kernel boot param
463     specification (e.g. ip=10.0.0.1::10.0.0.254:255.255.255.0::eth0,:::::eth1:dhcp).
464    
465 sng 56 ip[=**frommedia**]::
466 sng 28
467     If this variable is set, dhcp and static configuration are just skipped and the
468     system will use the (must be) media-preconfigured /etc/network/interfaces
469     instead.
470    
471 sng 56 {keyb|kbd-chooser/method}=**KEYBOARD**, {klayout|console-setup/layoutcode}=**LAYOUT**,
472     {kvariant|console-setup/variantcode}=**VARIANT**, {kmodel|console-setup/modelcode}=
473     **CODE**, koptions=**OPTIONS**::
474 sng 28
475     Configure the running keyboard as specified, if this one misses live-initramfs
476     behaves as if "keyb=us" was specified. It will be interfered from "locale=" if
477     locale is only 2 lowecase letters as a special case. You could also specify
478     console layout, variant, code, and options (no defaults).
479    
480 sng 56 live-getty::
481 sng 28
482     This changes the auto-login on virtual terminals to use the (experimental)
483     live-getty code. With this option set the standard kernel argument "console=" is
484     parsed and if a serial console is specified then live-getty is used to autologin
485     on the serial console.
486    
487 sng 56 {live-media|bootfrom}=**DEVICE**::
488 sng 28
489     If you specify one of this two equivalent forms, live-initramfs will first try
490     to find this device for the "/live" directory where the read-only root
491     filesystem should reside. If it did not find something usable, the normal scan
492     for block devices is performed.
493    
494 sng 56 {live-media-encryption|encryption}=**TYPE**::
495 sng 28
496     live-initramfs will mount the encrypted rootfs TYPE, asking the passphrase,
497     useful to build paranoid live systems :-). TYPE supported so far are "aes" for
498     loop-aes encryption type.
499    
500 sng 56 live-media-offset=**BYTES**::
501 sng 28
502     This way you could tell live-initramfs that your image starts at offset BYTES in
503     the above specified or autodiscovered device, this could be useful to hide the
504     Debian Live iso or image inside another iso or image, to create "clean" images.
505    
506 sng 56 live-media-path=**PATH**::
507 sng 28
508     Sets the path to the live filesystem on the medium. By default, it is set to
509     '/live' and you should not change that unless you have customized your media
510     accordingly.
511    
512 sng 56 live-media-timeout=**SECONDS**::
513 sng 28
514     Set the timeout in seconds for the device specified by "live-media=" to become
515     ready before giving up.
516    
517 sng 56 {locale|debian-installer/locale}=**LOCALE**::
518 sng 28
519     Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live-media rootfs
520     configured locale will be used and if also this one misses live-initramfs behave
521     as "locale=en_US.UTF-8" was specified. If only 2 lowercase letter are specified
522     (like "it"), the "maybe wanted" locale is generated (like en:EN.UTF-8), in this
523     case if also "keyb=" is unspecified is set with those 2 lowercase letters
524     (keyb=us). Beside that facility, only UTF8 locales are supported by
525     live-initramfs.
526    
527 sng 56 module=**NAME**::
528 sng 28
529     Instead of using the default optional file "filesystem.module" (see below)
530     another file could be specified without the extension ".module"; it should be
531     placed on "/live" directory of the live medium.
532    
533 sng 56 netboot[=**nfs**|**cifs**]::
534 sng 28
535     This tells live-initramfs to perform a network mount. The parameter "nfsroot="
536     (with optional "nfsopts="), should specify where is the location of the root
537     filesystem. With no args, will try cifs first, and if it fails nfs.
538    
539 sng 56 nfsopts=::
540 sng 28
541     This lets you specify custom nfs options.
542    
543 sng 56 noautologin::
544 sng 28
545     This parameter disables the automatic terminal login only, not touching gdk/kdm.
546    
547 sng 56 noxautologin::
548 sng 28
549     This parameter disables the automatic login of gdm/kdm only, not touching
550     terminals.
551    
552 sng 56 nofastboot::
553 sng 28
554     This parameter disables the default disabling of filesystem checks in
555     /etc/fstab. If you have static filesystems on your harddisk and you want them to
556     be checked at boot time, use this parameter, otherwise they are skipped.
557    
558 sng 56 nopersistent::
559 sng 28
560     disables the "persistent" feature, useful if the bootloader (like syslinux) has
561     been installed with persistent enabled.
562    
563 sng 56 noprompt
564 sng 28
565     Do not prompt to eject the CD on reboot.
566    
567 sng 56 nosudo::
568 sng 28
569     This parameter disables the automatic configuration of sudo.
570    
571 sng 56 swapon::
572 sng 28
573     This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions.
574    
575 sng 56 nouser::
576 sng 28
577     This parameter disables the creation of the default user completely.
578    
579 sng 56 noxautoconfig::
580 sng 28
581     This parameter disables Xorg auto-reconfiguration at boot time. This is valuable
582     if you either do the detection on your own, or, if you want to ship a custom,
583     premade xorg.conf in your live system.
584    
585 sng 56 persistent[=nofiles]::
586 sng 28
587     live-initramfs will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled
588     "live-rw", "home-rw", and files called "live-sn*", "home-sn*" and will try to,
589     in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just copy the
590     contents of the latter in appropriate locations (snapshots). Snapshots will be
591     tried to be updated on reboot/shutdown. Look at live-snapshot(1) for more
592     informations. If "nofiles" is specified, only filesystems with matching labels
593     will be searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for archives or image
594     files. This results in shorter boot times.
595    
596 sng 56 {preseed/file|file}=**FILE**::
597 sng 28
598     A path to a file present on the rootfs could be used to preseed debconf
599     database.
600    
601 sng 56 package/question=**VALUE**::
602 sng 28
603     All debian installed packages could be preseeded from command-line that way,
604     beware of blanks spaces, they will interfere with parsing, use a preseed file in
605     this case.
606    
607 sng 56 quickreboot::
608 sng 28
609     This option causes live-initramfs to reboot without attempting to eject the
610     media and without asking the user to remove the boot media.
611    
612 sng 56 showmounts::
613 sng 28
614     This parameter will make live-initramfs to show on "/" the ro filesystems
615     (mostly compressed) on "/live". This is not enabled by default because could
616     lead to problems by applications like "mono" which store binary paths on
617     installation.
618    
619 sng 56 textonly
620 sng 28
621     Start up to text-mode shell prompts, disabling the graphical user interface.
622    
623 sng 56 timezone=**TIMEZONE**::
624 sng 28
625     By default, timezone is set to UTC. Using the timezone parameter, you can set it
626     to your local zone, e.g. Europe/Zurich.
627    
628 sng 56 todisk=**DEVICE**::
629 sng 28
630     Adding this parameter, live-initramfs will try to copy the entire read-only
631     media to the specified device before mounting the root filesystem. It probably
632     needs a lot of free space. Subsequent boots should then skip this step and just
633     specify the "live-media=DEVICE" boot parameter with the same DEVICE used this
634     time.
635    
636 sng 56 toram::
637 sng 28
638     Adding this parameter, live-initramfs will try to copy the whole read-only media
639     to the computer's RAM before mounting the root filesystem. This could need a lot
640     of ram, according to the space used by the read-only media.
641    
642 sng 56 union=**aufs**|**unionfs**::
643 sng 28
644     By default, live-initramfs uses aufs. With this parameter, you can switch to
645     unionfs.
646    
647 sng 56 utc=**yes**|**no**::
648 sng 28
649     By default, Debian systems do assume that the hardware clock is set to UTC. You
650     can change or explicitly set it with this parameter.
651    
652 sng 56 xdebconf::
653 sng 28
654     Uses xdebconfigurator, if present on the rootfs, to configure X instead of the
655     standard procedure (experimental).
656    
657 sng 56 xvideomode=**RESOLUTION**::
658 sng 28
659     Doesn't do xorg autodetection, but enforces a given resolution.
660    
661     Files
662     -----
663    
664 sng 56 /etc/live.conf
665 sng 28
666     Some variables can be configured via this config file (inside the live system).
667    
668 sng 56 /live/filesystem.module
669 sng 28
670     This optional file (inside the live media) contains a list of white-space or
671     carriage-return-separated file names corresponding to disk images in the "/live"
672     directory. If this file exists, only images listed here will be merged into the
673     root aufs, and they will be loaded in the order listed here. The first entry
674     in this file will be the "lowest" point in the aufs, and the last file in
675     this list will be on the "top" of the aufs, directly below /cow. Without
676     this file, any images in the "/live" directory are loaded in alphanumeric order.
677    
678 sng 56 /etc/live-persistence.binds
679 sng 28
680     This optional file (which resides in the rootfs system, not in the live media)
681     is used as a list of directories which not need be persistent: ie. their
682     content does not need to survive reboots when using the persistence features.
683    
684     This saves expensive writes and speeds up operations on volatile data such as
685     web caches and temporary files (like e.g. /tmp and .mozilla) which are
686     regenerated each time. This is achieved by bind mounting each listed directory
687     with a tmpfs on the original path.
688    
689    
690     See also
691     --------
692    
693     live-snapshot(1), initramfs-tools(8), live-helper(7), live-initscripts(7),
694     live-webhelper(7)
695    
696     Bugs
697     ----
698    
699     Report bugs against live-initramfs
700 sng 56 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-initramfs" target="_blank">http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-initramfs</a>.
701 sng 28
702     Homepage
703     --------
704    
705     More information about the Debian Live project can be found at
706 sng 56 <a href="http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/" target="_blank">http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/</a> and
707     <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/" target="_blank">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/</a>.
708 sng 28
709     Authors
710     -------
711    
712 sng 56 live-initramfs is maintained by Daniel Baumann &amp;lt;daniel@debian.org&amp;gt;
713 sng 28 for the Debian project.
714    
715 sng 56 live-initramfs is a fork of <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/casper/" target="_blank">casper</a>.
716     casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen &amp;lt;tfheen@canonical.com&amp;gt;
717     and Matt Zimmerman &amp;lt;mdz@canonical.com&amp;gt;.
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