Reference

emile-set-cmdline(8)

sets the kernel command line for the emile bootloader

NAME

emile-set-cmdline — sets the kernel command line for the emile bootloader

SYNOPSIS

emile-set-cmdline [image] [cmdline]

emile-set-cmdline [-r] [image]

DESCRIPTION

emile-set-cmdline sets the kernel command line to cmdline for a emile bootloader disk image, floppy disk device (/dev/fd0), or the second level file. Executing with "-r" flag, displays the current command line.

OPTIONS

-h --help

Show summary of options.

-r

Display current kernel command line.

EXAMPLES

To set root filesystem on disk 1 partition 4:

emile-set-cmdline floppy.img "root=/dev/sda4"

To set root filesystem on ramdisk:

emile-set-cmdline floppy.img "root=/dev/ramdisk ramdisk_size=2048"

To set root filesystem on NFS:

emile-set-cmdline floppy.img "root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp nfsroot=192.168.100.1:/tftboot/192.168.100.51"

WARNING

!!! USE WITH CAUTION AND AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!

SEE ALSO

emile(8), emile-install(8), emile-first-tune(8), emile-map-set(8), emile-set-output(8).

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Stephen R. Marenka <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU GPL License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.