petitboot-nc(8)

petitboot-nc8

Petitboot ncurses bootloader ui

Usage

petitboot-nc [-d, --start-daemon] [-h, --help] [-l, --log log-file] [-V, --version]

Overview

petitboot-nc is an ncurses based interface to the Petitboot bootloader.

Petitboot is a Linux kexec based bootloader that supports loading Linux kernel and initrd images from any device that can be mounted by Linux. It can also load images from the network using the HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, SFTP, and TFTP protocols.

Options

-d, --start-daemon

Start pb-discover, the petitboot dynamic device discovery daemon, if it has not been started. This option is mainly useful when running petitboot as a stand-alone application.

-h, --help

Print a help message.

-l, --log log-file

Log messages to the file log-file. The default log is a file /var/log/petitboot-nc.log. New messages are appended to an existing log file.

-V, --version

Display the program version number.

Releases

Unchanged in 4 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

  1. 7–10

Reporting bugs

Send bug reports to Geoff Levand <geoff @ infradead.org>

From petitboot 13.05.29.14.00-g4dc604b-1+b7 in Debian 10 (Buster). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.