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- CHEATCODES AND HINTS FOR INSERT v1.3.5a
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- (last update: 25.05.2005)
-
- These options (can be combined) work from the ISOLINUX bootprompt:
-
- insert lang=be|ch|da|dk|en|es|pt|uk|us specify language/keyboard
- insert toram Copy CD to RAM and run from there
- insert xsetup Start xsetup.sh to configure graphics
- insert 2 Runlevel 2, Textmode only
- insert proxy=IP:Port Set proxy host:port
- puser=joepublic Set proxy user
- pport=passwort Set proxy password
- insert keyboard=en xkeyboard=en Use different keyboard (text/X)
- insert floppyconfig Run "insert.sh" from a floppy
- insert myconf=/dev/sda1 Run "insert.sh" from a partition
- insert myconf=scan (or config=scan) Try to find "insert.sh" automatically
- insert home=/dev/sda1/insert.img Mount loopback file as /home/insert
- insert home=scan Automatic search for insert homedir
- insert no{apic,agp,apm,dma} Skip parts of HW-detection (1)
- insert no{firewire,pcmcia,scsi} Skip parts of HW-detection (2)
- insert no{swap,usb} Skip parts of HW-detection (3)
- failsafe Boot with (almost) no HW-detection
- insert pci=irqmask=0x0e98 Try this, if PS/2 mouse doesn't work *)
- insert pci=bios Workaround for bad PCI controllers
- insert ide2=0x180 nopcmcia Boot from PCMCIA-CD-Rom (some notebooks)
- insert mem=128M Specify Memory size in MByte
- insert noeject Do NOT eject CD after halt
- insert noprompt Do NOT prompt to remove the CD
- insert vga=normal No-framebuffer mode, but X
- insert blind Start Braille-Terminal (no X)
- insert brltty=type,port,table Parameters for Braille device
- insert wheelmouse Enable IMPS/2 protocol for wheelmice
- insert nowheelmouse Force plain PS/2 protocol for PS/2-mouse
- insert tohd=/dev/hda1 Copy CD to HD partition and run from there
- insert fromhd=/dev/hda1 Boot from previously copied CD-Image
- insert testcd Check CD data integrity and md5sums
- expert Interactive setup for experts
-
- Hint: Using the default DE-bootimage, ISOLINUX boots with german keyboard
- layout. The '=' letter is located at Shift-0 on this keyboard (just in
- case you want to change keyboard and language with lang=us).
- Vice versa, if you're using the EN-bootimage and a German keyboard, you
- will find the letter "=" on the key "".
-
- *) Try "insert pci=irqmask=0x0e98" if (you have a notebook and) your
- PS/2 mouse doesn't work. (Possibly caused by a BIOS-flaw on your board,
- BIOS updates can help.) Sometimes, switching to the text console with
- Control-Alt-F1 and back to the X-screen with Control-F5 solves the
- problem without rebooting, since the X server reinitializes the mouse
- driver during that procedure.
-
- If your insert CD makes strange noises during boot, or you see
- frequent errors like "cloop: read error", or programs on your KDE
- desktop keep crashing randomly, then your CD image is probably defective
- or incomplete, or your CD-burner created a defective CD due to wrong
- writing speed or bad media. This is the most common error reported.
- Please boot with "insert testcd" to check if the CD is OK, and/or even
- better, verify the MD5 checksums that are present on the mirrors before
- writing the CD. In some cases, defective IDE controllers cause this
- error if you have DMA enabled. Also, please read the INSERT-FAQ.
-
- In case of a failing hardware autodetection, try booting with any of
- the "no-" options as shown in the table above, like in
- insert noagp noaudio noddc noapm noapic nodma nopcmcia noscsi nousb
- to skip some critical parts of the autodetection system.
-
- The "noswap" option is useful for a forensic analysis without touching
- existing swap partitions.
-
- Some Boards apparently don't pass the proper memory size to the
- linux-kernel. It may cause the message "Panic: cannot mount root file
- system" and the system hangs. Use "insert mem=128M" to solve that
- problem if your system has 128MByte memory for example (caution:
- you MUST use a capital "M" here).
-
- The "expert" mode provides a very simple interface to loading additional
- Kernel modules from floppy disks (ext2 or vfat), plus interactive
- configuration of mouse/keyboard/soundcard/xserver. "expert" mode supports
- the same boot options as "insert".
-
- The "floppyconfig" or "(my)config=/dev/partition" options allow you to
- reconfigure the system after autoconfiguration by running a bourne
- shell script called "insert.sh" from the root directory on the given
- device (or floppy). There is a GUI to create such a configuration
- floppy disk calles "saveconfig" (also located in the KDE menu under
- "INSERT", but experts also know how to do this by creating their own
- shellscripts. From Version 2.1 and up, a file called "insert.sh", if
- located in the toplevel INSERT directory on CD, will also be executed
- at startup. This makes ist easier to create customized versions without
- having to change anything on the compressed filesystem INSERT/INSERT.
-
- SCSI-Emulation is active for all CD-Roms, so IDE CD-Writers should
- work with the installed versions of cdrecord and cdrdao (or the
- graphical frontends thereof, k3b for example).
-
- If your BIOS does not support el torito booting from CD, you can create
- a bootable floppy disk by issuing (on Linux)
- dd if=/cdrom/INSERT/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
- or, in case of DOS, use the rawrite.exe program provided in the
- INSERT directory on CD.
-
- If you wish to remaster the CD, please don't forget to specify
- -b INSERT/boot.img
- for the german version of the bootfloppy, or
- -b INSERT/boot-en.img
- for the english version, as option to mkisofs. Otherwise your CD
- won't be bootable. The directory INSERT, containig the compressed
- filesystem file "INSERT", must be located in the top level
- directory of the CD.
-
- Caution: X-Screensaver: Don't start xlock or any screensaver that
- requires a password. There are no default passwords on INSERT,
- i.e. all accounts are LOCKED unless you explicitly set a password.
- See also README_Security.txt about this issue.
- If you accidentially hit the screensaver button in KDE,
- switch to one of the textconsoles by Control-Alt-F1 and kill
- the screensaver (or just set a password for the insert user).
-
- If you would like to edit your X-Server configuration manually
- (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for XFree86 V4.x), use "insert 2" to boot
- into runlevel 2 (textmode only) and, after changing the X
- configuration, start the X environment with "init 5". Note that
- you can always leave the graphical environment with "init 2", and
- restart it later with "init 5".
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