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authorNeil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>2014-10-18 19:35:19 +0100
committerNeil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>2014-10-18 19:35:19 +0100
commit9882c671914aa3e625965b19e70719a4cbd1714e (patch)
treeaa8c0d96ab54c8b66e8ca95bd69aedb39a8cf7cd
parent9c34bb89218c4cae225e46fee9d1f27788706d7f (diff)
downloadvmdebootstrap-9882c671914aa3e625965b19e70719a4cbd1714e.tar.gz
Update manpage for mbrvmdebootstrap-0.4
Some images using extlinux may need mbr installed when booted other than with QEMU.
-rw-r--r--vmdebootstrap.8.in5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/vmdebootstrap.8.in b/vmdebootstrap.8.in
index e8c005d..cde170b 100644
--- a/vmdebootstrap.8.in
+++ b/vmdebootstrap.8.in
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ Configure the virtual machine to use the image you've created.
Then start the virtual machine,
and log into it via its console to configure it.
.PP
-Unless the \-\-no\-extlinux option is specified, the image will use
+Unless the \-\-no\-extlinux or \-\-grub options are specified, the
+image will use
.BR extlinux (1)
as a boot loader.
The image has an empty root password and will not have networking
@@ -121,6 +122,8 @@ Filesystem to use for the /boot partition. (default ext2)
Path to the binfmt_handler to enable foreign support in debootstrap. e.g. /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static - note foreign debootstraps may take a signficant amount of time to complete and that debootstrap will retry five times if packages fail to install by default.
.IP \-\-no\-extlinux
Skip installation of extlinux. needs a customize script to make the image bootable. Useful for architectures where extlinux is not supportable.
+Depending on how the image is to be booted, the \-\-mbr option may also be
+necessary with extlinux.
.IP \-\-squash
Run mksquashfs against the final image using xz compression - requires
squashfs-tools to be installed. The final file will have the .squashfs suffix.