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nightmorph 08/03/27 04:59:01 |
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Modified: hb-install-gli-medium.xml |
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Log: |
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synced up the boot parameters, with many updates from wolf31o2 |
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Revision Changes Path |
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1.2 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-gli-medium.xml |
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file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-gli-medium.xml?rev=1.2&view=markup |
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plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-gli-medium.xml?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain |
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-gli-medium.xml?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 |
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Index: hb-install-gli-medium.xml |
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=================================================================== |
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-gli-medium.xml,v |
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retrieving revision 1.1 |
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retrieving revision 1.2 |
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diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 |
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--- hb-install-gli-medium.xml 27 Feb 2008 22:46:58 -0000 1.1 |
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+++ hb-install-gli-medium.xml 27 Mar 2008 04:59:01 -0000 1.2 |
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<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> |
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<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> |
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-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-gli-medium.xml,v 1.1 2008/02/27 22:46:58 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-gli-medium.xml,v 1.2 2008/03/27 04:59:01 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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<sections> |
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<comment>Hardware options:</comment> |
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acpi=on This loads support for ACPI and also causes the acpid daemon to |
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- be started by the CD on boot. This is only needed if your |
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+ be started by the CD on boot. This is only needed if your |
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system requires ACPI to function properly. This is not |
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required for Hyperthreading support. |
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-acpi=off Completely disables ACPI. This is useful on some older |
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- systems, and is also a requirement for using APM. This will |
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- disable any Hyperthreading support of your processor. |
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+acpi=off Completely disables ACPI. This is useful on some older systems |
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+ and is also a requirement for using APM. This will disable any |
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+ Hyperthreading support of your processor. |
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console=X This sets up serial console access for the CD. The first |
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option is the device, usually ttyS0 on x86, followed by any |
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dmraid=X This allows for passing options to the device-mapper RAID |
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subsystem. Options should be encapsulated in quotes. |
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doapm This loads APM driver support. This requires you to also use |
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acpi=off. |
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-doslowusb This adds some extra pauses into the boot process for the slow |
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- USB CDROM of the IBM BladeCenter. |
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dopcmcia This loads support for PCMCIA and Cardbus hardware and also |
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causes the pcmcia cardmgr to be started by the CD on boot. |
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- This is only required when booting from a PCMCIA/Cardbus device. |
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+ This is only required when booting from PCMCIA/Cardbus devices. |
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doscsi This loads support for most SCSI controllers. This is also a |
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requirement for booting most USB devices, as they use the SCSI |
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nodmraid Disables support for device-mapper RAID, such as that used for |
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on-board IDE/SATA RAID controllers. |
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-nofirewire This disables the loading of Firewire modules. This should only |
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- be necessary if your Firewire hardware is causing a problem |
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- with booting the CD. |
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+nofirewire This disables the loading of Firewire modules. This should |
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+ only be necessary if your Firewire hardware is causing |
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+ a problem with booting the CD. |
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-nogpm This disables gpm console mouse support. |
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+nogpm This diables gpm console mouse support. |
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nohotplug This disables the loading of the hotplug and coldplug init |
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scripts at boot. This is useful for doing debugging of a |
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nolapic This disables the local APIC on Uniprocessor kernels. |
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-nosata This disables the loading of Serial ATA modules. This is |
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- useful if your system is having problems with the SATA subsystem. |
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+nosata This disables the loading of Serial ATA modules. This is used |
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+ if your system is having problems with the SATA subsystem. |
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nosmp This disables SMP, or Symmetric Multiprocessing, on SMP-enabled |
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kernels. This is useful for debugging SMP-related issues with |
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nousb This disables the autoloading of USB modules. This is useful |
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for debugging USB issues. |
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-<comment>Volume/Device Management:</comment> |
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+slowusb This adds some extra pauses into the boot process for slow |
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+ USB CDROMs, like in the IBM BladeCenter. |
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-dodevfs This enables the deprecated device filesystem on 2.6 systems. |
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- You will also need to use noudev for this to take effect. |
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- Since devfs is the only option with a 2.4 kernel, this option |
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- has no effect if booting a 2.4 kernel. |
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+<comment>Volume/Device Management:</comment> |
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doevms This enables support for IBM's pluggable EVMS, or Enterprise |
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Volume Management System. This is not safe to use with lvm. |
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dolvm This enables support for Linux's Logical Volume Management. |
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This is not safe to use with evms. |
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-noudev This disables udev support on 2.6 kernels. This option |
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- requires that dodevfs is used. Since udev is not an option for |
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- 2.4 kernels, this option has no effect if booting a 2.4 |
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- kernel. |
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-unionfs Enables support for Unionfs on supported CD images. This will |
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- create a writable Unionfs overlay in a tmpfs, allowing you to |
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- change any file on the CD. |
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-unionfs=X Enables support for Unionfs on supported CD images. This will |
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- create a writable Unionfs overlay on the device you specify. |
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- The device must be formatted with a filesystem recognized and |
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- writable by the kernel. |
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<comment>Other options:</comment> |
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-debug Enables debugging code. This might get messy, as it displays |
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+debug Enables debugging code. This might get messy, as it displays |
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a lot of data to the screen. |
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docache This caches the entire runtime portion of the CD into RAM, |
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available RAM as the size of the CD. |
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doload=X This causes the initial ramdisk to load any module listed, as |
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- well as dependencies. Replace X with the module name. Multiple |
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- modules can be specified by a comma-separated list. |
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+ well as dependencies. Replace X with the module name. |
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+ Multiple modules can be specified by a comma-separated list. |
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+dosshd Starts sshd on boot, which is useful for unattended installs. |
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+passwd=foo Sets whatever follows the equals as the root password, which |
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+ is required for dosshd since we scramble the root password. |
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noload=X This causes the initial ramdisk to skip the loading of a |
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specific module that may be causing a problem. Syntax matches |
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that of doload. |
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+nonfs Disables the starting of portmap/nfsmount on boot. |
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nox This causes an X-enabled LiveCD to not automatically start X, |
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but rather, to drop to the command line instead. |
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Replace X with the number of seconds to pause. |
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</pre> |
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+<note> |
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+The CD will check for "no*" options before "do*" options, so that you can |
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+override any option in the exact order you specify. |
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+</note> |
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<p> |
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Now boot your CD, select a kernel (if you are not happy with the default |
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<c>gentoo</c> kernel) and boot options. As an example, we show you how |
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