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authorPhilippe Seewer <philippe.seewer@bfh.ch>2009-11-27 11:57:16 +0100
committerHarald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>2009-11-27 14:07:21 +0100
commita8dbfbb8cec16b50f22921f01c02dcc857255a30 (patch)
tree22a8c166d18ad22f18c00d1cff3358ea6788ec14
parenta68c99c94eb977e23c403ab0ddbdd12c24b6fa21 (diff)
Fix manpage display errors
Some lines in dracut's manpage are just too long for justified display on 80c terminals. These small corrections fix this. In addition man --warnings does not complain anymore about anything at all.
-rw-r--r--dracut.838
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/dracut.8 b/dracut.8
index f2643d4..f25a77c 100644
--- a/dracut.8
+++ b/dracut.8
@@ -104,8 +104,9 @@ root filesystem.
.B init=<path to real init>
.TP
.B root=<path to blockdevice>
-specify e.g. \fI/dev/sda1\fR or
-\fI/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:1:0-part1\fR
+specify blockdevice to use as root filesystem.
+e.g. \fI/dev/sda1\fR
+e.g. \fI/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:1:0-part1\fR
.TP
.B rootfstype=<filesystem type>
"auto" if not specified, e.g. \fIrootfstype=ext3\fR
@@ -120,7 +121,9 @@ do not honor special mount options for the root filesystem found in
/etc/fstab of the real root.
.SH I18N
+.ad l
e.g. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys
+.ad
.TP
.B KEYBOARDTYPE=sun|pc
will be written to /etc/sysconfig/keyboard in the initramfs
@@ -200,6 +203,7 @@ to the specified values
.TP
.B rd_ZFCP=<zfcp adaptor device bus ID>,<WWPN>,<FCPLUN>
rd_ZFCP can be specified multiple times on the kernel command line.
+
example: rd_ZFCP=0.0.4000,0x5005076300C213e9,0x5022000000000000
.TP
.B rd_NO_ZFCPCONF
@@ -208,9 +212,9 @@ ignore zfcp.conf included in the initramfs
.SH CCW
.TP
.B rd_CCW=<nettype>,<subchannels>,<options>
-rd_CCW can be specified multiple times on the kernel command line.
-e.g. rd_CCW=qeth,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602,layer2=1,portname=foo
-e.g. rd_CCW=ctc,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602,protocol=bar
+rd_CCW can be specified multiple times on the kernel command line. Examples:
+ rd_CCW=qeth,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602,layer2=1,portname=foo
+ rd_CCW=ctc,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602,protocol=bar
.SH DHCP
.TP
.B root=dhcp
@@ -244,7 +248,7 @@ Set the NFSv4 domain name. Will overwrite the settings in /etc/idmap.conf.
.SH iSCSI
.TP
-.B root=iscsi:[username:password[reverse:password]@][<servername>]:[<protocol>]:[<port>]:[<LUN>]:<targetname>
+.B root=iscsi:[username:password[:reverse:password]@][<servername>]:[<protocol>]:[<port>]:[<LUN>]:<targetname>
protocol defaults to "6", LUN defaults to "0".
If the "servername" field is provided by BOOTP or DHCP, then that
@@ -261,10 +265,15 @@ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4173
e.g. root=iscsi:192.168.50.1::::iqn.2009-06.dracut:target0
.TP
.B root=??? netroot=iscsi:[username:password[:reverse:password]@][<servername>]:[<protocol>]:[<port>]:[<LUN>]:<targetname> ...
+.ad l
multiple netroot options allow setting up multiple iscsi disks
e.g.
- root=UUID=12424547 netroot=iscsi:192.168.50.1::::iqn.2009-06.dracut:target0 netroot=iscsi:192.168.50.1::::iqn.2009-06.dracut:target1
-.B not yet implemented
+ root=UUID=12424547
+ netroot=iscsi:192.168.50.1::::iqn.2009-06.dracut:target0
+ netroot=iscsi:192.168.50.1::::iqn.2009-06.dracut:target1
+
+.B not yet implemented!
+.ad
.TP
.B root=??? iscsi_initiator= iscsi_target_name= iscsi_target_ip= iscsi_target_port= iscsi_target_group= iscsi_username= iscsi_password= iscsi_in_username= iscsi_in_password=
.TP
@@ -284,13 +293,11 @@ the MAC-address must be lowercase!
mount nbd share from <server>
.TP
.B root=dhcp
- with dhcp root-path=nbd:<server>:<port>[:<fstype>][:<mountopts>]
+with dhcp root-path=nbd:<server>:<port>[:<fstype>][:<mountopts>]
root=dhcp alone directs initrd to look at the DHCP root-path where NBD options can be specified.
This syntax is only usable in cases where you are directly mounting the volume as the rootfs.
.SH Network
-.TP bootdev=<interface>
-.B specify the network interface to boot from
.TP
.B ip={dhcp|on|any}
get ip from dhcp server from all interfaces. If root=dhcp, loop sequentially through all interfaces (eth0, eth1, ...) and use the first with a valid DHCP root-path.
@@ -298,7 +305,9 @@ get ip from dhcp server from all interfaces. If root=dhcp, loop sequentially thr
.B ip=<interface>:{dhcp|on|any}
get ip from dhcp server on a specific interface
.TP
-.B ip=<client-IP-number>:[<server-id>]:<gateway-IP-number>:<netmask>:<client-hostname>:<interface>:{none|off}
+.ad l
+.B ip=<client-IP>:[<server-id>]:<gateway-IP>:<netmask>:<client\%hostname>:<interface>:{none|off}
+.ad
explicit network configuration
.TP
.B ifname=<interface>:<MAC>
@@ -306,6 +315,9 @@ Assign network device name <interface> (ie eth0) to the NIC with MAC <MAC>.
Note letters in the MAC-address must be lowercase!
Note that if you use this option you \fBmust\fR specify an ifname= argument
for all interfaces used in ip= or fcoe= arguments
+.TP
+.B bootdev=<interface>
+specify network interface to use routing and netroot information from. Required if multiple ip= lines are used.
.SH Plymouth Boot Splash
.TP
@@ -331,7 +343,7 @@ set -x for the dracut shell and logs to dmesg, console and /init.log
.B rdbreak
drop to a shell at the end
.TP
-.B rdbreak={cmdline|pre-udev|pre-trigger|initqueue|pre-mount|mount|pre-pivot}
+.B rdbreak={cmdline | pre-udev | pre-trigger | initqueue | pre-mount | mount | pre-pivot}
drop to a shell on defined breakpoint
.TP
.B rdudevinfo