Cheatcodes for Wifiway.

==================== Boot parameters (also known as cheatcodes) are used to affect the booting process of Wifiway. Some of them are common for all Linuxes, others are specific for Wifiway only. You can use them to disable desired kind of hardware detection, to start Wifiway from harddisk, to skip the login prompt and start GUI, etc. Reboot your computer and wait several seconds until nice graphical wifiway logo appears with a boot menu (it's there usually for less then 9 seconds). Choose your desired menu entry and hit Tab, which will allow you to edit the command line. Add your desired boot argument from the list below, to affect booting the way you like: acpi=off nohotplug nopcmcia noagp ... disable specified hardware autodetection in the case of hangups Your hardware won't be detected at all, you'll have to use "pcimodules" command after logging into Wifiway and you'll have to try to modprobe all needed modules from the list manually nodma ... disable DMA for all CD-ROMs and disks noauto ... list harddisks in fstab with 'noauto', so you have to mount every disk manually in order to access it. nohd ... don't even know about any harddisks at all. nocd ... don't even know about any cdroms at all. nosound ... mute sound instead of raising volume to 77% from=/dev/hda1/wifiway.iso from=path/to/wifiway.iso from=/dev/hda1 from=path/to/wifiway/ ... To load Wifiway data from different place instead of the boot device. ... First example will search for wifiway.iso, only on hda1 ... Second example will search for 'path/to/wifiway.iso' on all devices. The first device containing the path/file is used ... Third example expects that the ISO is unpacked to hda1 ... Fourth example searches through all disks for a directory 'path/to/wifiwa

y' and expects content of unpacked ISO inthere passwd=somepass passwd=ask ... set root's password to "somepass", or ask (with =ask) for a new password during the boot, before starting wifiway (don't worry, the new password won't be shown at the login screen) changes=/dev/device changes=/dev/device/file.dat changes=/path/ changes=/path/file.dat changes=/dev/device/path/ ... all changes you made in Wifiway are kept in memory until you reboot. But with this boot parameter, you tell Wifiway to use different device (or a file or directory) than the memory for storing changes. You can, for example, format your disk partition /dev/hda1 with some Linux filesystem (eg. xfs) and then use changes=/dev/hda1 to store all changes to that disk (it will be stored in 'changes' directory on that disk. This way you won't loose your changes after reboot. ... if you use a file name instead of device, and the file contains valid filesystem, Wifiway will mount it as a loop device and will store changes to it. Moreover if you don't specify the device where the file is stored, Wifiway will try to find it on all your partitions. ... if you use a directory, Wifiway will save changes to it (it will make a 'changes' subdirectory inthere). You don't even need a Linux filesystem on that disk, as the directory will be overlayed by posixovl. This way, you can save your changes even to VFAT or NTFS. toram copy2ram ... copy all files (all required and optional modules) to RAM. You'll need at least 320MB of RAM to do this and boot Wifiway properly. This will slow down the boot phase but it will speed up Wifiway! load=module ... load optional modules from /optional/ directory on the CD. You can use full module name (module.lzm) or you can skip the extension noload=module noload=module[1];module[n] ...disable loading of any modules specified. This affects all the modules on Wifiway CD, including /base and /modules, so using noload=kde will disable loading of all modules with 'kde' in the name. It is useful with copy2ram cheatcode, because any un-used module is not copied to ram. debug ... enable debug mode (and start bash several times during the boot)

hit Ctrl+D to continue booting autoexec=... autoexec=startx autoexec=xconf;startx autoexec=xconf;startx;reboot ... Execute specified command(s) instead of Wifiway login. In this example, skip wifiway login prompt and automatically start XWindow system. Use semicolon (;) as command separator. ... Wifiway will not reboot automatically after the command(s) finish, so if you'd like to restart, specify 'reboot' or 'poweroff' as the last command. ... If you need to use spaces in the commandline, replace them by ~. For example, autoexec=echo~Shutting~power;poweroff will do just like that .