New options in live-initramfs
Hello guys,
In last days, I have revised the boot procedure in a Debian Live system,
adding some useful options, I submit those to you, consider if that is
interesting.
A litlle explanation of those options:
ROOTDELAY=10s # must be allways enabled, because we are working with slow USB
devices, and it takes some time to register them
don't scan floppies for valid partitions anymore; because scanning floppy
produces the redo_fd_request bug, in some machines; and floppies have very
little capacity to store files,
Check better for FSTYPE, detect invalid devices and don't scan them for
subdevices.
when a timezone is specified, specify also UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS
Options name is not case sensitive; but when needed, their values are stored
in their original lettercase.
noeject - when stopping system; don't prompt to eject boot media and
don't eject also,
profile=name - the name of the desired profile, to be used in /etc/live.conf
to set a configuration depending on his value,
netconfig=domain,ipnameserver1,ipnameserver2 - when a static ip address is
specified, we need also that values
rootpersistence=rootpartitionlabel - the label of the partition containg the
persistent root filesystem, live-rw by default
norootpersistence - don't check for root persistence
homepersistence=homepartitionlabel - the label of the partition containg the
persistent home filesystem, home-rw by default
nohomepersistence - don't check for home persistence
rootsnapshotlabel=label ( and so on )
norootsnapshotlabel
homesnapshotlabel=label
nohomesnapshotlabel
nosnapshots - don't look for snapshots at all
systemdir=SystemDirName - the name of the directory containing
filesystem.squashfs and other system files ( /live by default )
Attached is a file with the modifications I did, and in some manner, tested,
Best regards,
Jordi Pujol
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