EMILE/docs/emile-set-cmdline.sgml

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  <!ENTITY dhfirstname "<firstname>Stephen</firstname>">
  <!ENTITY dhsurname   "<surname>Marenka</surname>">
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  <!ENTITY dhsection   "<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>">
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  <!ENTITY dhusername  "Stephen R. Marenka">
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  <!ENTITY dhprogram   "emile-set-cmdline">

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  <refentryinfo>
    <address>
      &dhemail;
    </address>
    <author>
      &dhfirstname;
      &dhsurname;
    </author>
    <copyright>
      <year>2005</year>
      <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
    </copyright>
    &dhdate;
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  <refmeta>
    &dhucpackage;

    &dhsection;
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    <refname>&dhprogram;</refname>

    <refpurpose>sets the kernel command line for the 
    		<command>&dhpackage;</command> bootloader 
	</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>&dhprogram;</command>
	<arg>image</arg>
	<arg>cmdline</arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>&dhprogram;</command>
	<arg>-r</arg>
	<arg>image</arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>
  <refsect1>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

    <para><command>&dhprogram;</command> sets the kernel command line 
    		to cmdline for a <command>&dhpackage;</command> 
		bootloader disk image, floppy disk device (/dev/fd0), 
		or the second level file.  Executing with "-r" flag, 
		displays the current command line.
	</para>

  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>OPTIONS</title>

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-h</option>
          <option>--help</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Show summary of options.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-r</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Display current kernel command line.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>EXAMPLES</title>
	<para>
		To set root filesystem on disk 1 partition 4:
	</para>
	<para>
      		<command>&dhprogram;</command> floppy.img "root=/dev/sda4"
	</para>
	<para>
		To set root filesystem on ramdisk:
	</para>
	<para>
      		<command>&dhprogram;</command> floppy.img "root=/dev/ramdisk ramdisk_size=2048"
	</para>
	<para>
		To set root filesystem on NFS:
	</para>
	<para>
      		<command>&dhprogram;</command> floppy.img "root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp nfsroot=192.168.100.1:/tftboot/192.168.100.51"
	</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>WARNING</title>
	<para>
		!!! USE WITH CAUTION AND AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!
	</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>

    <para>emile(8), emile-install(8), emile-first-tune(8), 
    	emile-map-set(8), emile-set-output(8).</para>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>AUTHOR</title>

    <para>This manual page was written by &dhusername; <&dhemail;> for
      the &debian; system (but may be used by others).  Permission is
      granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
      the terms of the <acronym>GNU</acronym> GPL License, Version 2 
      or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
    </para>
    <para>
	On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
	License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
    </para>

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