MorphixBootOptions
From MorphixWiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting
Change the BIOS Bootup Sequence (presssing DEL or similar key during booting) to this one:
- Floppy
- USB (if you BIOS can boot it directly from the motherboard).
- CD-ROM
- IDE-0 or similar (hard disk).
Boot options are used to pass values to Morphix, to help with getting it working on difficult hardware. You type them into the boot screen, shown to the left, and press enter/return (they are called "Cheatcodes" in Knoppix). The format is "kernel opt opt opt ...". Usually "morphix" is the right selection for the kernel, options as listed below. With recent Morphix base releases, a grub menu has been added to hide most of these options. In that case, you simply select the entry for your system.
Example: "morphix xmodule=fbdev"
You can type more than one boot option before pressing enter (i.e. morphix xmodulefbdev langes).
To type this bootoptions, remember that, by default, Morphix boots with the [[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US US keyboard]] layout (i.e. '=' letter is located two keys right to 0 at at this keyboard). Print the US keyboard layout for your reference.
You can use
[edit] F2
to get help about MorphixBootOptions, during the LiveCD initialization.
If you find problems with any of the options don't hesitate to let me know. Bootoptions allow you to modify the behaviour of a Morphix iso.
[edit] morphix-acpi
(switches acpi on for laptops. Introduced in the 0.4-1b base module)
[edit] failsafe
(boots with everything set to default. try this if you're having problems). See failsafe.
[edit] expert
(lets you configure your hardware interactively)
[edit] fb1024x768
(Use fixed framebuffer graphics)
[edit] fb800x600
(Use fixed framebuffer graphics)
[edit] memtest
(Tests internal memory of PC)
Then you specify zero or more of the following options, like so:
morphix wheelmouse screen=1280x1024
The bootoptions:
lang=us / lang=bg||be||ch||cn||cs||cz||da||de||dk||es||fi||fr||it||ja||nl||pl||ru||sk||tr||tw||uk||us
- loads keymap and version for a certain language, might not work for everyone but should affect keyboard
You can click on http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm to see the two-letters code meanings
More information at LanguageSupport.
[edit] keyboard=us
- console keyboard
[edit] xkeyboard=us
- X keyboard
[edit] screen=1280x1024
- Define XFree resolution (1600x1200 etc)
[edit] depth=24
- Define XFree colordepth
[edit] xvrefresh=60
- Set vertical refresh rate
[edit] xhrefresh=60
- Set horizontal sync rate (not tested)
[edit] xmodule=ati||radeon||fbdev||vesa||savage||s3||nv||i810||mga||svga||tseng||nvidia
- Define XFree v4 module. When nvidia is used, the nvidia.com proprietary drivers are used
[edit] 2
- Runlevel 2, doesn't load mainmodules, debugging.
[edit] dma
- enable DMA for IDE devices, increases throughput but doesn't work on all PC's
[edit] noapic noagp noapm nomce nofirewire nopcmcia noscsi noswap nousb nosmp noaudio nodhcp nodosswap
- Skips loading of item
[edit] pci=biosirq
- Will force the use of the BIOS assigned Interrupt ReQuests on the PCI bus. Possible cure for non-functioning hardware. Very handy for unruly IRQ conflicts. Look at dmesg and cat /proc/pci to find out if you have any such troubles
[edit] gmt||uce
- Hardware clock is set to GMT/UCE
[edit] vga=normal
- Boot without vesa-framebuffer. This is default, for the 'old' bootscreen use vga=791
[edit] alsa
- attempts to autodetect alsa
[edit] alsa=alsa-module
- attempts to load a soundcard with this alsa module
[edit] testcd
- checks if the CD was burned correctly
[edit] home=dev/device / home=/mnt/device / home=scan
- attempts to load the persistent home from fat/ext2/ext3/reiser/xfs device
[edit] forceusb=yes
- Forces USB to be loaded, fixes certain USB problems.
[edit] blocktrans=yes
- keeps translucency from being loaded, debugging only (your system won't correctly boot X with this option)
[edit] floppyconfig
- starts the morphix.sh file from floppy during boottime, for quick
