nightmorph 08/03/27 04:59:02 Modified: hb-install-x86+amd64-medium.xml Log: synced up the boot parameters, with many updates from wolf31o2
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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. + +console=X This sets up serial console access for the CD. The first + option is the device, usually ttyS0 on x86, followed by any + connection options, which are comma separated. The default + options are 9600,8,n,1. + +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. + +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 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 + subsystem of the kernel. + +hda=stroke This allows you to partition the whole hard disk even when your + BIOS is unable to handle large disks. This option is only used + on machines with an older BIOS. Replace hda with the device + that is requiring this option. + +ide=nodma This forces the disabling of DMA in the kernel and is required + by some IDE chipsets and also by some CDROM drives. If your + system is having trouble reading from your IDE CDROM, try this + option. This also disables the default hdparm settings from + being executed. + +noapic This disables the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller + that is present on newer motherboards. It has been known to + cause some problems on older hardware. + +nodetect This disables all of the autodetection done by the CD, + including device autodetection and DHCP probing. This is + useful for doing debugging of a failing CD or driver. + +nodhcp This disables DHCP probing on detected network cards. This is + useful on networks with only static addresses. + +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. + +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 + failing CD or driver. + +nokeymap This disables the keymap selection used to select non-US + keyboard layouts. + +nolapic This disables the local APIC on Uniprocessor kernels. + +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 + certain drivers and motherboards. + +nosound This disables sound support and volume setting. This is useful + for systems where sound support causes problems. + +nousb This disables the autoloading of USB modules. This is useful + for debugging USB issues. + +slowusb This adds some extra pauses into the boot process for slow + USB CDROMs, like in the IBM BladeCenter. + +<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. + +dolvm This enables support for Linux's Logical Volume Management. + This is not safe to use with evms. + +<comment>Other options:</comment> + +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, + which allows you to umount /mnt/cdrom and mount another CDROM. + This option requires that you have at least twice as much + 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. + +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. + +scandelay This causes the CD to pause for 10 seconds during certain + portions the boot process to allow for devices that are slow to + initialize to be ready for use. + +scandelay=X This allows you to specify a given delay, in seconds, to be + added to certain portions of the boot process to allow for + devices that are slow to initialize to be ready for use. + 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. As an example, we show you how -- [email protected] mailing list
