SystemRescueCD boot parameters [^]
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-The following info applies to SystemRescueCD v. 1.3.5. In case +The following info applies to SystemRescueCD v. 1.5.5. In case you need to get info for a more recent version of SystemRescueCD please see the page "Sysresccd-manual-en Booting the CD-ROM" |
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- rescuecd This is the default choice for 32bits systems, with Framebuffer disabled, best choice. -
- altker32 This is an alternative kernel for 32bits systems. Boot with this kernel in case you have problems with rescuecd. altker32 was named vmlinuz2 in versions prior to SystemRescueCd-1.0.0. -
- rescue64 This is the default 64 bits kernel. Use it if you want to chroot to a 64bits linux system installed on your hard disk, or if you have to run 64 bits programs. This kernel is able to boot SystemRescueCd from the cdrom with 32bits programs, and it required a processor with 64bits instructions (amd64 / em64t). -
- altker64 This is an alternative kernel for 64bits systems. Boot with this kernel in case you have problems with rescue64. Only available from SystemRescueCd-1.0.0 and newer. + + + +
- rescuecd Default for 32bit systems, with Framebuffer disabled, best choice. +
- rescue64 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). +
- altker32 an alternative kernel for 32bit systems. Boot with this kernel if you have problems with rescuecd +
- altker64 an alternative kernel for 64bit systems. Boot with this kernel in case you have problems with rescue64. +
The boot parameters you can use are:
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General boot options
-Press <TAB> to add additional options. +
General boot options
+Press <TAB> to add additional options (in SystemRescueCd-1.5 and more recent)
- docache: 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
bootdisksandisolinuxdirectories). Addlowmemif you have less that 400MB of memory of to prevent these directories to be copied. -
During boot you will be prompted for the keyboard configuration, avoid this by using -
-- setkmap=kk: which defines the keymap to load where
kk(example:setkmap=defor German keyboards) - - root=/dev/xdnp: the root=<device> option boots an existing linux system. For example, if you have linux Gentoo installed on
/dev/sda6, userescuecd root=/dev/sda6to 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. Userescuecd root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00. Support is also provided forroot=auto, which scans all the block devices tfor a linux system. The first linux system found will be started. So withroot=autolet 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 itsfilesystem labelorfilesystem uuid. If the label of the partition where linux is installed ismylinux, then boot it usingrescuecd root=LABEL=mylinux. Similarlyroot=UUID=b3d3bec5-997a-413e-8449-0d0ec41ccba7. See more details. + - setkmap=kk: which defines the keymap to load where
kk(example:setkmap=defor German keyboards). This way you won't be prompted for the keyboard configuration during the boot. + - root=/dev/xdnp: the root=<device> option boots an existing linux system. For example, if you have linux Gentoo installed on
/dev/sda6, userescuecd root=/dev/sda6to 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. Userescuecd root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00. Support is also provided forroot=auto, which scans all the block devices tfor a linux system. The first linux system found will be started. So withroot=autolet 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 itsfilesystem labelorfilesystem uuid. If the label of the partition where linux is installed ismylinux, then boot it usingrescuecd root=LABEL=mylinux. Similarlyroot=UUID=b3d3bec5-997a-413e-8449-0d0ec41ccba7. See more details. - initscript=service:action: 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:
initscript=samba:start. This does the same thing as/etc/init.d/samba start. Use this option multiple times for different services. All the actions that are supported by an initscript can be used. - - backstore=xxx: SystemRescueCd comes with support for the backing-stores. 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
backstore=offon the boot command line. If you want to save your backing-store file on an harddisk, boot withbackstore=alldevto scan all devices (not just removable devices). The default location for backing-stores file is any file namedsysrcd.bslocated at the root of a disk which is often an USB stick. Change the path by usingbackstore=/sysrcd/mybackstore.bs. See backing-stores. - - isoloop=xxx: 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
systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.isoon 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 itssysrcd.datfile is in an ISO and not directly on the partition. For that reason, thisisoloop=xxxboot option is required so you must use it in yourgrub.cfg. 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/bootand if you copy this ISO image to/boot/sysrcd/systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.isothen the option has to beisoloop=/sysrcd/systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.iso. This is because the boot partition is what Grub2 will consider as its root partition during the boot process. Please read the section about isoloop for more details. + - backstore=xxx: SystemRescueCd comes with support for the backing-stores. 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
backstore=offon the boot command line. If you want to save your backing-store file on an harddisk, boot withbackstore=alldevto scan all devices (not just removable devices). The default location for backing-stores file is any file namedsysrcd.bslocated at the root of a disk which is often an USB stick. Change the path by usingbackstore=/sysrcd/mybackstore.bs. See backing-stores. + - isoloop=xxx: 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
systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.isoon 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 itssysrcd.datfile is in an ISO and not directly on the partition. For that reason, thisisoloop=xxxboot option is required so you must use it in yourgrub.cfg. 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/bootand if you copy this ISO image to/boot/sysrcd/systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.isothen the option has to beisoloop=/sysrcd/systemrescuecd-x86-x.y.z.iso. This is because the boot partition is what Grub2 will consider as its root partition during the boot process. Please read the section about isoloop for more details.
Hardware, drivers and troubleshooting options
Hardware, drivers and troubleshooting options
- dodebug: Enables verbose messages in linuxrc
- doload=xxx: loads needed modules, multiple occurrences are permitted (example:
doload=3c59x) - - noload=xxx: prevents loading modules, multiple occurrences are permitted (example:
noload=3c59x). Use this option if you have a problem when the system loads a particular module. +- doload=xxx: loads needed kernel modules, multiple comma separated occurrences are permitted (example:
doload=3c59x,e1000) + - noload=xxx: prevents loading kernel modules, multiple comma separated occurrences are permitted (example:
noload=3c59x,e1000). Use this option if you have a problem when the system loads a particular module. - nonet: this will disable the network auto detection at startup
- scandelay=x: 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. @@ -187,20 +185,22 @@
- skipmount=/dev/xxx: 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
skipmount=/dev/sda1 skipmount=/dev/sda2to ignore these two partitions.
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Network configuration and remote access- dodhcp: to request a DHCP server provide network attributes including an IP address, gateway... . otherwise,
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Network configuration and remote access- nonm: to disable the Network-Manager service that conflicts with the standard network command line tools such as
ifconfigandip. 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. + - dodhcp: to request a DHCP server provide network attributes including an IP address, gateway... +
- nodhcp: 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
- ethx=ipaddr/cidr: Sets the static IP address of all the ethernet interfaces on the system. The
/cidrextension is optional. For instance, if you use optionethx=192.168.0.1on a machine with two ethernet adapters, botheth0andeth1will be configured with192.168.0.1. You can use the formatethx=10.0.0.1/24(using the cidr notation) if you don't use the default netmask. - eth0=ipaddr/cidr: This option is similar to
ethx=ipaddr/cidrbut it configures only one interface at a time. To configure the network on a server that has two interfaces, use:eth0=192.168.10.1/24 eth1=192.168.20.1. - dns=ipaddr: Sets the static IP address of the DNS nameserver you want to use to resolve the names. For instance
dns=192.168.0.254means that you want to use192.168.0.254as the DNS server. - gateway=ipaddr: Sets the static IP address of the default route on your network. For instance
gateway=192.168.0.254means that the computer can connect to a computer outside of the local network via192.168.0.254. - dhcphostname=myhost: 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.
- rootpass=123456: Sets the root password of the system running on the livecd to
1234. That way you can connect from the network and ssh on the livecd and give123456password as the root password. - - vncserver=x:123456: The vncserver boot option 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
xwith the number of displays you want, and123456with your password The password must be between 5 and 8 characters, else the boot option will be ignored. In other words thevncserver=2:MyPaSsWdoption 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. - - nameif=xxx: You can can specify what interface name to give 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:
nameif=eth0!00:0C:29:57:D0:6E,eth1!00:0C:29:57:D0:64. Be careful, you have to respect the separator (comma between the interfaces and exclamation marks between the name and the mac address). + - vncserver=x:123456: The vncserver boot option 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
xwith the number of displays you want, and123456with your password The password must be between 5 and 8 characters, else the boot option will be ignored. In other words thevncserver=2:MyPaSsWdoption 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. + - nameif=xxx: You can can specify what interface name to give 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:
nameif=eth0!00:0C:29:57:D0:6E,eth1!00:0C:29:57:D0:64. 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 BOOTIF 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 likenameif=eth0!BOOTIFif you want the boot interface to be calledeth0on a computer with several Ethernet interfaces.
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Network boot using PXE
Network boot using PXESystemRescueCd provides several options for booting from the network using PXE. -These options can be combined with other network boot options such as
ethx(cf previous section). See PXE network booting to get a global overview of SystemRescueCd and PXE and Manage remote servers using PXE. +These options can be combined with other network boot options such asethx(cf previous section). See PXE network booting to get a global overview of SystemRescueCd and PXE and Manage remote servers using PXE.The second stage downloads the kernel + initramfs using DHCP/TFTP.
The third stage of the PXE boot process acquires the root files system.
Several protocols are available. @@ -210,10 +210,10 @@
- nonm: to disable the Network-Manager service that conflicts with the standard network command line tools such as
- netboot=nfs://ip:/path: mount an NFSv3 directory. The NFS url must be the path of the directory that contains
sysrcd.dat. 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. - netboot=nbd://ip:port: connect to an NBD server configured with
sysrcd.daton 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.
For information on activating speakup, see the speakup info page. +
For information on activating speakup, see the speakup info page.
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Options provided for autorun- ar_source=xxx: place where the autorun are stored. It may be the root directory of a partition (
/dev/sda1), an nfs share (nfs://192.168.1.1:/path/to/scripts), a samba share (smb://192.168.1.1/path/to/scripts), or an http directory (http://192.168.1.1/path/to/scripts). +
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Options provided for autorun- ar_source=xxx: place where the autorun are stored. It may be the root directory of a partition (
/dev/sda1), an nfs share (nfs://192.168.1.1:/path/to/scripts), a samba share (smb://192.168.1.1/path/to/scripts), or an http directory (http://192.168.1.1/path/to/scripts). - autoruns=[0-9]: comma separated list of the autorun scrip to be run. For example
autoruns=0,2,7the autorun scautorun0,autorun2,autorun7are run. Useautoruns=noto disable all the autorun scripts with a number. - ar_ignorefail: continue to execute the scripts chain even if a script failed (returned a non-zero status)
- ar_nodel: do not delete the temporary copy of the autorun scripts located in
/var/autorun/tmpafter execution @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@Clonezilla Live boot parameters [^]
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ --The following info applies to Clonezilla Live v. 1.2.3-27
+The following info applies to Clonezilla Live v. 1.2.5-17
In case you need to get info for a more recent version of Clonezilla Live
please see the page "The boot parameters for Clonezilla live"Clonezilla live is based on Debian live with clonezilla installed. Therefore there are 2 kinds of boot parameters: +Clonezilla live is based on Debian live with clonezilla installed. Therefore there are 2 kinds of boot parameters:- Boot parameters from live-initramfs. You can refer to this manual of live-initramfs.
- 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.
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live-initramfs(7) ================= @@ -404,113 +407,114 @@ You probably do not want to install this package onto a non-live system, although it will do no harm. -live-initramfs is a fork of link:http://packages.ubuntu.com/casper/[casper]. -casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com> -and Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>. +live-initramfs is a fork of casper. +casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com> +and Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>. Boot options ------------ Here is the complete list of recognized boot parameters by live-initramfs. - access=*ACCESS*:: + access=*ACCESS*:: Set the accessibility level for physically or visually impared users. ACCESS must be one of v1, v2, v3, m1, or m2. v1=lesser visual impairment, v2=moderate visual impairment, v3=blindness, m1=minor motor difficulties, m2=moderate motor difficulties. - console=*TTY,SPEED*:: + console=*TTY,SPEED*:: Set the default console to be used with the "live-getty" option. Example: "console=ttyS0,115200" - debug:: + debug:: Makes initramfs boot process more verbose. - fetch=*URL*:: + fetch=*URL*:: Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url, copying to ram and booting it. - hostname=*HOSTNAME*, username=*USER*, userfullname=*USERFULLNAME*:: + hostname=*HOSTNAME*, username=*USER*, userfullname=*USERFULLNAME*:: Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file. - ignore_uuid + ignore_uuid Do not check that any UUID embedded in the initramfs matches the discovered medium. live-initramfs may be told to generate a UUID by setting LIVE_GENERATE_UUID=1 when building the initramfs. - integrity-check:: + integrity-check:: If specified, an MD5 sum is calculated on the live media during boot and compared to the value found in md5sum.txt found in the root directory of the live media. - ip=**[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF] - [,[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF]]***:: + ip=**[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]: + [DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF] [,[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]: + [DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF]]***:: Let you specify the name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should be configured at boot time. Do not specify this if you want to use dhcp (default). It will be changed in a future release to mimick official kernel boot param specification (e.g. ip=10.0.0.1::10.0.0.254:255.255.255.0::eth0,:::::eth1:dhcp). - ip[=**frommedia**]:: + ip[=**frommedia**]:: If this variable is set, dhcp and static configuration are just skipped and the system will use the (must be) media-preconfigured /etc/network/interfaces instead. - {keyb|kbd-chooser/method}=**KEYBOARD**, {klayout|console-setup/layoutcode}=**LAYOUT**, - {kvariant|console-setup/variantcode}=**VARIANT**, - {kmodel|console-setup/modelcode}=**CODE**, koptions=**OPTIONS**:: + {keyb|kbd-chooser/method}=**KEYBOARD**, {klayout|console-setup/layoutcode}=**LAYOUT**, + {kvariant|console-setup/variantcode}=**VARIANT**, {kmodel|console-setup/modelcode}= + **CODE**, koptions=**OPTIONS**:: Configure the running keyboard as specified, if this one misses live-initramfs behaves as if "keyb=us" was specified. It will be interfered from "locale=" if locale is only 2 lowecase letters as a special case. You could also specify console layout, variant, code, and options (no defaults). - live-getty:: + live-getty:: This changes the auto-login on virtual terminals to use the (experimental) live-getty code. With this option set the standard kernel argument "console=" is parsed and if a serial console is specified then live-getty is used to autologin on the serial console. - {live-media|bootfrom}=**DEVICE**:: + {live-media|bootfrom}=**DEVICE**:: If you specify one of this two equivalent forms, live-initramfs will first try to find this device for the "/live" directory where the read-only root filesystem should reside. If it did not find something usable, the normal scan for block devices is performed. - {live-media-encryption|encryption}=**TYPE**:: + {live-media-encryption|encryption}=**TYPE**:: live-initramfs will mount the encrypted rootfs TYPE, asking the passphrase, useful to build paranoid live systems :-). TYPE supported so far are "aes" for loop-aes encryption type. - live-media-offset=**BYTES**:: + live-media-offset=**BYTES**:: This way you could tell live-initramfs that your image starts at offset BYTES in the above specified or autodiscovered device, this could be useful to hide the Debian Live iso or image inside another iso or image, to create "clean" images. - live-media-path=**PATH**:: + live-media-path=**PATH**:: Sets the path to the live filesystem on the medium. By default, it is set to '/live' and you should not change that unless you have customized your media accordingly. - live-media-timeout=**SECONDS**:: + live-media-timeout=**SECONDS**:: Set the timeout in seconds for the device specified by "live-media=" to become ready before giving up. - {locale|debian-installer/locale}=**LOCALE**:: + {locale|debian-installer/locale}=**LOCALE**:: Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live-media rootfs configured locale will be used and if also this one misses live-initramfs behave @@ -520,65 +524,65 @@ (keyb=us). Beside that facility, only UTF8 locales are supported by live-initramfs. - module=**NAME**:: + module=**NAME**:: Instead of using the default optional file "filesystem.module" (see below) another file could be specified without the extension ".module"; it should be placed on "/live" directory of the live medium. - netboot[=**nfs**|**cifs**]:: + netboot[=**nfs**|**cifs**]:: This tells live-initramfs to perform a network mount. The parameter "nfsroot=" (with optional "nfsopts="), should specify where is the location of the root filesystem. With no args, will try cifs first, and if it fails nfs. - nfsopts=:: + nfsopts=:: This lets you specify custom nfs options. - noautologin:: + noautologin:: This parameter disables the automatic terminal login only, not touching gdk/kdm. - noxautologin:: + noxautologin:: This parameter disables the automatic login of gdm/kdm only, not touching terminals. - nofastboot:: + nofastboot:: This parameter disables the default disabling of filesystem checks in /etc/fstab. If you have static filesystems on your harddisk and you want them to be checked at boot time, use this parameter, otherwise they are skipped. - nopersistent:: + nopersistent:: disables the "persistent" feature, useful if the bootloader (like syslinux) has been installed with persistent enabled. - noprompt + noprompt Do not prompt to eject the CD on reboot. - nosudo:: + nosudo:: This parameter disables the automatic configuration of sudo. - swapon:: + swapon:: This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions. - nouser:: + nouser:: This parameter disables the creation of the default user completely. - noxautoconfig:: + noxautoconfig:: 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. - persistent[=nofiles]:: + persistent[=nofiles]:: live-initramfs 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, @@ -589,39 +593,39 @@ will be searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for archives or image files. This results in shorter boot times. - {preseed/file|file}=**FILE**:: + {preseed/file|file}=**FILE**:: A path to a file present on the rootfs could be used to preseed debconf database. - package/question=**VALUE**:: + package/question=**VALUE**:: All debian installed packages could be preseeded from command-line that way, beware of blanks spaces, they will interfere with parsing, use a preseed file in this case. - quickreboot:: + quickreboot:: This option causes live-initramfs to reboot without attempting to eject the media and without asking the user to remove the boot media. - showmounts:: + showmounts:: This parameter will make live-initramfs 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. - textonly + textonly Start up to text-mode shell prompts, disabling the graphical user interface. - timezone=**TIMEZONE**:: + timezone=**TIMEZONE**:: By default, timezone is set to UTC. Using the timezone parameter, you can set it to your local zone, e.g. Europe/Zurich. - todisk=**DEVICE**:: + todisk=**DEVICE**:: Adding this parameter, live-initramfs will try to copy the entire read-only media to the specified device before mounting the root filesystem. It probably @@ -629,39 +633,39 @@ specify the "live-media=DEVICE" boot parameter with the same DEVICE used this time. - toram:: + toram:: Adding this parameter, live-initramfs 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. - union=**aufs**|**unionfs**:: + union=**aufs**|**unionfs**:: By default, live-initramfs uses aufs. With this parameter, you can switch to unionfs. - utc=**yes**|**no**:: + utc=**yes**|**no**:: By default, Debian systems do assume that the hardware clock is set to UTC. You can change or explicitly set it with this parameter. - xdebconf:: + xdebconf:: Uses xdebconfigurator, if present on the rootfs, to configure X instead of the standard procedure (experimental). - xvideomode=**RESOLUTION**:: + xvideomode=**RESOLUTION**:: Doesn't do xorg autodetection, but enforces a given resolution. Files ----- - /etc/live.conf + /etc/live.conf Some variables can be configured via this config file (inside the live system). - /live/filesystem.module + /live/filesystem.module This optional file (inside the live media) contains a list of white-space or carriage-return-separated file names corresponding to disk images in the "/live" @@ -671,7 +675,7 @@ this list will be on the "top" of the aufs, directly below /cow. Without this file, any images in the "/live" directory are loaded in alphanumeric order. -/etc/live-persistence.binds + /etc/live-persistence.binds This optional file (which resides in the rootfs system, not in the live media) is used as a list of directories which not need be persistent: ie. their @@ -693,24 +697,25 @@ ---- Report bugs against live-initramfs -link:http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-initramfs[http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-initramfs]. +http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-initramfs. Homepage -------- More information about the Debian Live project can be found at -link:http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/[http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/] and -link:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/]. +http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ and +http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/. Authors ------- -live-initramfs is maintained by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> +live-initramfs is maintained by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> for the Debian project. -live-initramfs is a fork of link:http://packages.ubuntu.com/casper/[casper]. -casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com> -and Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>.
+live-initramfs is a fork of casper. +casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com> +and Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>. +
- ar_source=xxx: place where the autorun are stored. It may be the root directory of a partition (
- doload=xxx: loads needed kernel modules, multiple comma separated occurrences are permitted (example: