2 Subject: optimize infos in lilo.conf.5
3 Author: Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian at joonet.de>
4 Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283281
6 Last-Update: 2011-06-18
8 Optimize infos about "boot=" and "root=" option in lilo.conf.5.
11 diff -urN s11/man/lilo.conf.5 s12/man/lilo.conf.5
12 --- s11/man/lilo.conf.5 2011-06-18 16:04:46.916604045 +0200
13 +++ s12/man/lilo.conf.5 2011-06-18 16:07:05.112620983 +0200
17 .BI "boot=" <boot-device>
18 -Sets the name of the device (e.g. a hard disk partition) that contains
19 -the boot sector. If this keyword is omitted, the boot sector is read
20 -from (and possibly written to) the device that is currently mounted as root.
21 +Sets the name of the device (e.g. hard disk or partition) that contains
22 +the boot sector and where the new boot sector should be written to. Notice:
23 +The boot-device should be the device with the currently mounted root partition.
25 A raid installation is initiated by specifying a RAID1 device as the boot
26 device; e.g., "boot=/dev/md0".
28 is used, the root device is set to the device on which the root file
29 system is currently mounted. If the root has been changed with \-r ,
30 the respective device is used. If the variable `root' is omitted,
31 -the root device setting contained in the kernel image is used.
32 -(And that is set at compile time using the ROOT_DEV variable in
33 -the kernel Makefile, and can later be changed with the rdev(8) program.)
34 +the root device setting contained in the running kernel image is used.
35 +Warning: This can induce to an unbootable system!
37 The root filesystem may also be specified by a