| Usage: palo [options] |
| (if an option is repeated, the last instance of it takes precedence) |
| -?, --help Print this information |
| -c, --commandline=default kernel command line |
| Maximum 127 characters. |
| -k, --recoverykernel=path to recovery kernel (perhaps /boot/vmlinux) |
| -b, --bootloader=path to boot loader (usually /usr/share/palo/iplboot) |
| -r, --ramdisk=path to initial ramdisk image |
| -I, --init-partitioned=partitioned device or file |
| Initialize a pre-partitioned device, usually a hard disk. |
| The partition table is not modified. Requires only -c and -b |
| though -k is customary and prudent. |
| -U, --update-partitioned=partitioned device or file |
| Update a pre-partitioned device, usually a hard disk. |
| The partition table is not modified. Usually used to |
| modify the default kernel command line (-c). |
| -s, --init-tape=file |
| Initialize an unpartitioned file which can be copied to |
| tape, disk, or used as a bootp image. Requires -c, -b, -k. |
| -C, --init-cdrom=iso-image-file |
| Convert an ISO image already containing a kernel, boot loader, |
| and optionally a ramdisk, into a PA-RISC bootable image. |
| Requires -c, -b, -k, and optionally -r. The files named on |
| the palo command line must have EXACTLY the same contents as |
| those already in the ISO image. |
| -f, --configfile=path to config file |
| Each line in the named configuration file is added |
| as a separate argument to the beginning of the palo |
| command line arguments (thus command-line options |
| override config file options). |
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| Short or long options can be used with long options |
| peferred for readability in the configuration file. |
| WARNING: No quotations or other shell syntax is understood, |
| so use |
| --commandline=a b c |
| not |
| --commandline='a b c'. |
| The short-option config file form of the above is: |
| -c |
| a b c |
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| Blank lines and lines beginning with # are ignored. |
| Whitespace at the beginning and ends of lines is discarded. |
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| When -f is not specified, palo tries /etc/palo.conf. Use |
| --configfile=/dev/null to avoid configuration files or |
| warnings when /etc/palo.conf is missing. |
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| 'palo' with no arguments whatsoever is equivalent to 'palo -f /etc/palo.conf'. |
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| When more than one of -I, -U, -s and -C are used, only the |
| last one is effective. |