delo.conf - configuration file for delo

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"

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.

delo(8), t-rex(1)

Manpage written by

Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org>

Thiemo Seufer <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>

Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>