== Tweaks for the boot commandline == To boot with default values just press ENTER. === Desktop Environment === 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|S|s|single => Select a runlevel to start with. The default is 4 for graphical login. kbd=fr xkb=ch,fr => Example of custom X keyboard layout. livepw="somestring" => Change the password for user "live". The password is passed as a cleartext string. You can pass an empty string (livepw=) to remove the password. locale=nl_NL kbd=nl tz=Europe/Amsterdam => Example of language, keyboard and/or timezone customization. rootpw="somestring" => Change the password for user "root". The password is passed as a cleartext string. You can pass an empty string (rootpw=) to remove the password. === Custom software === load=nvidia => Load and configure Nvidia drivers if available in the ISO. load=mod1[,mod2[...]] => Load one or more squashfs modules from the directory: "/liveslak/optional". By default none of these modules is loaded on boot. noload=mod1[,mod2[...]] => Prevent loading of one or more squashfs modules from the directory "/liveslak/addons". By default all these modules are loaded on boot. === Network boot === dhcpwait= => Maximum wait time for the DHCP client to configure a network interface (default: 20 seconds). nfsroot=ip.ad.dr.ess:/path/to/liveslak => defines the IP address of the NFS server, and the path to the extracted content of Slackware Live Edition. nic=::[:ipaddr:netmask[:gateway]] => network device customization, usually this parameter is not needed when your network runs a DHCP server. Specify a driver if UDEV does not detect the device. Specify the interface if Slackware Live can not figure it out. If you specify 'static' you need to also specify ipaddr and netmask. The gateway is optional but needed to access the internet for instance. === Hardware related === localhd => initialize RAID/LVM on local hard drives. tweaks=tweak1[,tweak2,[,...]] => Implemented tweaks: nga - no glamor 2D acceleration, avoids error "EGL_MESA_drm_image required". nsh - no sub-pixel hinting in freetype. tpb - enable TrackPoint scrolling while holding down middle mouse button. syn - start the syndaemon for better support of Synaptics touchpads. ssh - start SSH daemon (disabled by default). nomodeset => Boot without kernel mode setting, needed with some machines. rootdelay=10 => Add 10 second delay to give the kernel more time to initialize USB. Try this if booting fails. Default is 5. swap => Allow the Live OS to activate all swap partitions on the local hardware. By default, no swap is touched. === Media tweaks === cfg=[skip|write] => Specify 'skip' to skip disk-based configuration file containing OS parameters; or specify 'write' to write current OS parameters to disk. domain=your_custom_domain => Specify a custom domain name. Defaults to 'example.net'. hostname=your_custom_hostname[,qualifier] => Specify a custom hostname. A qualifier 'fixed' can be appended to prohibit hostname modification in case of network boot. livemedia=/dev/sdX => Tell the init script which partition contains the Slackware Live OS you want to boot. This can become necessary if you have another copy of Slackware Live installed in another partition. livemedia=/dev/sdX:/path/to/live.iso livemedia=scandev:/path/to/live.iso => Use this if you want to load the live OS from an ISO file on a local harddisk partition. livemain=directoryname => Use this if you copied the content of the ISO to a different directory than "liveslak". luksvol=file1[:/mountpoint1][,file1[:/mountpoint2],...] => Mount LUKS container "file1" at mount point "/mountpoint1". Multiple files should be separated with comma. Specify "luksvol=" to *prevent* mounting any LUKS container. nop => No persistence, i.e. boot the virgin installation in case your "persistence" directory got corrupted. If you want to ignore any persistent data during boot, including LUKS data, specify "nop luksvol=" . nop=wipe => Wipe all data from persistence directory or container. Useful in cases where your persistent data got corrupted. persistence=directoryname => Use this if you want to use a different directory than "persistence" for storing persistent data. persistence=/dev/sdX:/path/to/mypersistence persistence=scandev:/path/to/mypersistence => Use this if the persistence directory or container is not located on the USB stick, but on a local hard disk partition. Useful for network (PXE) boot where you still want to offer users persistence. toram => copy the OS from the media to to RAM before running it. You can remove the boot media after booting. toram=all => Prevent writes to disk since we are supposed to run from RAM; equivalent to parameter "toram". toram=core => Load Console OS modules into RAM. Console-only Slackware loads fast, contains 'setup2hd' and frees up your USB drive so you can overwrite it with a Persistent Live OS. toram=os => Load OS modules into RAM, but write persistent data to USB. === Troubleshooting === blacklist=mod1[,mod2[...]] => Add one or more kernel modules to the kernel blacklist to prevent them from loading, in case they cause issues during operation. debug => During init, pause at strategic locations while as- sembling the overlay filesystem and show mount information. rescue => After initialization, you will be dropped in a rescue shell to perform lowlevel maintenance.