NAME
delo.conf - configuration file for delo
DESCRIPTION
This file, by default /etc/delo.conf, is read by the boot loader
installer ’/sbin/delo’ and is used by the loader itself to read its
configuration.
It might look as follows:
# /etc/delo.conf
#
# boot device
boot=/dev/sda
# bootable kernel images:
label=linux
image=/boot/vmlinux
append="root=/dev/sda5 console=ttyS2"
label=linux-2.4
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4
append="root=/dev/hda2 console=ttyS0 initrd=/initrd.img"
OPTIONS
boot=<disk>
This defines the boot device where the primary boot block will
be written to.
label=<label>
This tells delo the label of the menu entry. This is a top-
level option, the following two must come after a label, and
they will be associated with it. The label can be passed as a
commandline parameter to the loader to specify which
configuration should be booted with the following syntax (by
default the first label is used):
<partition_number>/<label> param=value param=value ...
This results in a boot command like:
boot 3/rz0 1/linux-2.4 console=ttyS3
image=<path>
With this token, you can tell delo where to find the actual
kernel image.
append=<options>
You can use this token to pass options to the kernel, like the
root device, or the system console. One special append option
evaluated by delo is the initrd parameter. You can specify a
path to a gzipped initrd image which is preloaded and provided
to the kernel. This requires a kernel with support for the
rd_start and rd_size kernel parameters (see t-rex(1) for further
information). The Debian kernel-image packages support this,
upstream kernels might need a patch.
SEE ALSO
delo(8), t-rex(1)
AUTHORS
Manpage written by
Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org>
Thiemo Seufer <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>