Cheat codes
| Cheatcode | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| acpi | off | turn ACPI completely off |
| oldboot | needed ACPI parts to boot remain active, others are turned off | |
| force | force ACPI on | |
| alsa | ||
| apm | off | power-off |
| bootfirewire | boot from Firewire CD | |
| desktop | kde | choose your desktop |
| fluxbox | ||
| gnome | ||
| icewm | ||
| larswm | ||
| twm | ||
| wmaker | ||
| xfce4 | ||
| dpi | XX bzw. auto | set desired Dots Per Inch for your display (e.g. my 15" 1600x1200 laptop is 1600/(15*(4/5)) = 133 so dpi=133 |
| expert | interactive boot mode | |
| failsafe | minimal auto detection | |
| firewire | activate Firewire | |
| floppyconfig | run Joatha.sh from floppy | |
| fromhd | /dev/hda1 (hda2,...) | boot from previous copied CD image on the supplied partition (partition should contain a file Joatha/Joatha) |
| fromiso | some/path/sid*.iso | like fromhd, but uses the Joatha iso image. Also does not require a cd to boot from, only requires the correct kernel and initrd/minirt |
| home | /dev/sda1/Joatha.img | mount loopback file as /home/Joatha |
| scan | search for Joatha home dir | |
| hsync | 80 (zB) | horizontal monitor refresh rate (kHz) |
| ide2 | 0x180 nopcmcia | boot from PCMCIA-CD-Rom |
| irqpoll | use IRQ poll | |
| lang | sets your default keyboard, language and timezone. Options are: au (Australia), be (Belgian), bg (Bulgarian), ch (Swiss), cn (Simplified Chinese), cs or cz (Czech), da or dk (Danish), de (German), es (Spanish), fi (Finnish), fr (French), he or il (Hebrew), ie (Irish-English), it (Italian), jp (limited Japanese), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), ru (Russian), sk (Slovak), sl (Slovenian), tr (Turkish), tw (Traditional Chinese), uk (British), us (American). | |
| mem | 128MB (zB) | ram size to be used |
| myconf | /dev/sda1 | load configuration from device |
| MyNewHostname | hostname, changes hostname of live-cd system | |
| scan | try to find "Joatha.sh" | |
| noacpi | disable acpi | |
| noagp | disable agp | |
| noapic | disable apic | |
| noaudio | disable audio | |
| noautomount | disable automount | |
| noddc | disable automatic Direct Digital Calibration (attempts to configure your monitor settings) | |
| nodhcp | disable automatic use of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (attempts to automatically setup your ethernet connections). | |
| nodma | disable the use of Direct Memory Access for your drives | |
| noeject | do not prompt to eject the cd on shutdown | |
| nofc | skip Fritzcard (ISDN) setup | |
| nofirewire | disable automatic firewire detection | |
| nofloppy | disable floppy | |
| nointro | skips the display of index.html on live desktop startup | |
| noisapnpbios | disable ISA Plug'n Play | |
| nomce | no message for an irrelevant error | |
| noml | discards all the modelines provided. asks display about settings to use | |
| nomodem | skip Winmodem setup | |
| nopcmcia | disables pcmcia support | |
| nocpufreq | do not activate Speedstep/Powernow | |
| noscsi | do not automatically detect scsi | |
| nosmp | disable Symetric Multi Processor support | |
| nosound | disable sound support | |
| notouchpad | disable touchpad support | |
| nousb | disable automatic usb detection | |
| noudev | disable udev support | |
| nowheel | force PS/2 protokol for PS/2 mouse | |
| pci | noacpi | do not use ACPI to route PCI interrupts |
| quiet | don't list everything to console | |
| resume | /dev/hdaX | allow suspend mode |
| screen | 800x600 | sets you screen resolution, 1024x768, 1600x1200 etc |
| scsiisa | activate some ISA SCSI driver ???????????? | |
| testcd | test integrity of medium | |
| tohd | copy CD to HD Partition and run from there | |
| toram | copy CD to RAM and start from there | |
| union* | uses unionfs to merge a second directory/partition. Can be combined (e.g. using unionro and unionrw togther) | |
| unionfs | allows you to make changes to the running system by storing changes in ram | |
| unionro | /media/hda5/unionro.img | allows you to restore changes to the running system from the supplied partition or loopback filesystem. This partition or loopback filesystem will be mounted read only so it will not allow more exchanges to it |
| unionrw | /media/hda5/ | allows you to make changes to the running system by storing changes in the supplied partition or loopback filesystem (05-02) |
| vga | normal | look here for vga codes: VGA Cheatcodes |
| vsync | 60 | vertical monitor refresh rate (Hz) |
| xmodule | ati | use given X-module |
| fbdev | use given X-module | |
| i810 | use given X-module | |
| mga | use given X-module | |
| nv | use given X-module | |
| radeon | use given X-module | |
| savage | use given X-module | |
| vesa | use given X-module | |
| xhrefresh | 80 | horizontal monitor refresh rate (kHz) |
| xvrefresh | 60 | vertical monitor refresh rate |
Content last revised UTC 22/01/2007 1400hrs UTC