nightmorph 08/03/27 04:59:01 Modified: hb-install-gli-medium.xml Log: synced up the boot parameters, with many updates from wolf31o2
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This is only needed if your + be started by the CD on boot. This is only needed if your system requires ACPI to function properly. This is not required for Hyperthreading support. -acpi=off Completely disables ACPI. This is useful on some older - systems, and is also a requirement for using APM. This will - disable any Hyperthreading support of your processor. +acpi=off Completely disables ACPI. This is useful on some older systems + and is also a requirement for using APM. This will disable any + Hyperthreading support of your processor. console=X This sets up serial console access for the CD. The first option is the device, usually ttyS0 on x86, followed by any @@ -249,16 +249,12 @@ dmraid=X This allows for passing options to the device-mapper RAID subsystem. Options should be encapsulated in quotes. - doapm This loads APM driver support. This requires you to also use acpi=off. -doslowusb This adds some extra pauses into the boot process for the slow - USB CDROM of the IBM BladeCenter. - dopcmcia This loads support for PCMCIA and Cardbus hardware and also causes the pcmcia cardmgr to be started by the CD on boot. - This is only required when booting from a PCMCIA/Cardbus device. + This is only required when booting from PCMCIA/Cardbus devices. doscsi This loads support for most SCSI controllers. This is also a requirement for booting most USB devices, as they use the SCSI @@ -289,11 +285,11 @@ nodmraid Disables support for device-mapper RAID, such as that used for on-board IDE/SATA RAID controllers. -nofirewire This disables the loading of Firewire modules. This should only - be necessary if your Firewire hardware is causing a problem - with booting the CD. +nofirewire This disables the loading of Firewire modules. This should + only be necessary if your Firewire hardware is causing + a problem with booting the CD. -nogpm This disables gpm console mouse support. +nogpm This diables gpm console mouse support. nohotplug This disables the loading of the hotplug and coldplug init scripts at boot. This is useful for doing debugging of a @@ -304,8 +300,8 @@ nolapic This disables the local APIC on Uniprocessor kernels. -nosata This disables the loading of Serial ATA modules. This is - useful if your system is having problems with the SATA subsystem. +nosata This disables the loading of Serial ATA modules. This is used + if your system is having problems with the SATA subsystem. nosmp This disables SMP, or Symmetric Multiprocessing, on SMP-enabled kernels. This is useful for debugging SMP-related issues with @@ -317,12 +313,10 @@ nousb This disables the autoloading of USB modules. This is useful for debugging USB issues. -<comment>Volume/Device Management:</comment> +slowusb This adds some extra pauses into the boot process for slow + USB CDROMs, like in the IBM BladeCenter. -dodevfs This enables the deprecated device filesystem on 2.6 systems. - You will also need to use noudev for this to take effect. - Since devfs is the only option with a 2.4 kernel, this option - has no effect if booting a 2.4 kernel. +<comment>Volume/Device Management:</comment> doevms This enables support for IBM's pluggable EVMS, or Enterprise Volume Management System. This is not safe to use with lvm. @@ -330,23 +324,9 @@ dolvm This enables support for Linux's Logical Volume Management. This is not safe to use with evms. -noudev This disables udev support on 2.6 kernels. This option - requires that dodevfs is used. Since udev is not an option for - 2.4 kernels, this option has no effect if booting a 2.4 - kernel. - -unionfs Enables support for Unionfs on supported CD images. This will - create a writable Unionfs overlay in a tmpfs, allowing you to - change any file on the CD. - -unionfs=X Enables support for Unionfs on supported CD images. This will - create a writable Unionfs overlay on the device you specify. - The device must be formatted with a filesystem recognized and - writable by the kernel. - <comment>Other options:</comment> -debug Enables debugging code. This might get messy, as it displays +debug Enables debugging code. This might get messy, as it displays a lot of data to the screen. docache This caches the entire runtime portion of the CD into RAM, @@ -355,13 +335,21 @@ available RAM as the size of the CD. doload=X This causes the initial ramdisk to load any module listed, as - well as dependencies. Replace X with the module name. Multiple - modules can be specified by a comma-separated list. + well as dependencies. Replace X with the module name. + + Multiple modules can be specified by a comma-separated list. + +dosshd Starts sshd on boot, which is useful for unattended installs. + +passwd=foo Sets whatever follows the equals as the root password, which + is required for dosshd since we scramble the root password. noload=X This causes the initial ramdisk to skip the loading of a specific module that may be causing a problem. Syntax matches that of doload. +nonfs Disables the starting of portmap/nfsmount on boot. + nox This causes an X-enabled LiveCD to not automatically start X, but rather, to drop to the command line instead. @@ -375,6 +363,11 @@ Replace X with the number of seconds to pause. </pre> +<note> +The CD will check for "no*" options before "do*" options, so that you can +override any option in the exact order you specify. +</note> + <p> Now boot your CD, select a kernel (if you are not happy with the default <c>gentoo</c> kernel) and boot options. 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