Wolvix Cheat Codes

• Disable acpi support. This could fix booting on some broken machines which don't even boot Wolvix and hang immediately after loading vmlinuz.

• Disable almost all hardware autodetection in the case of hangups. Your hardware won't be detected at all; you'll have to use the "pcimodules" command after logging into Wolvix and try to modprobe all needed modules from the list manually.

• Skip pcmcia hardware detection in the case of hangups.

• Skip agp hardware detection in the case of hangups.

• Disable DMA for all CD-ROMs and disks.

• Don't mount any hard disks at all.

• Don't search for the Wolvix CD; try only USB and other devices.

• Mute sound instead of raising the volume to 77%.

• Do not eject the Wolvix CD on reboot or shutdown. (Wolvix 1.1.0)

• Do not launch the SLiM∞ login manager. (Wolvix 1.1.0)

• Do not run the Xorg auto-configuration script. (Wolvix 1.1.0)

• Do not update the desktop database on boot. (Wolvix 1.1.0)

• Update the font cache on boot. (Wolvix 1.1.0)

• Set root's password to "somepass", or ask (with =ask) for a new password during the boot, before starting Wolvix. (Don't worry, the new password won't be shown at the login screen).

• Copy all files (all required and optional modules) to RAM. You'll need at least 384MB (Wolvix Cub) or 640MB (Wolvix Hunter) of RAM. This will slow down the boot phase but speed up Wolvix!

• Specify how much RAM (in percent or megabytes) is used to store changes. (Defaults to ramsize=60%.)

• Enable floppy automounting during startup. This option also causes settings saved by the "configsave" command to be restored from the floppy diskette, too.

• Load optional modules from /optional/ directory on the CD. You can use the full module name (module.mo), or you can skip the extension.

• Disable loading specified Wolvix modules (even those from /base/ and /modules).

• All changes you made in Wolvix are kept in memory until you reboot. But with this boot parameter, you tell Wolvix to use a different device than memory for storing changes. You can, for example, format your disk partition /dev/hda1 with some Linux filesystem (eg. ext2) and then use changes=/dev/hda1 to store all changes to that disk. This way you won't lose your changes after reboot. (See StoreChanges for more details)

• Load stored Wolvix data from specified path or device.

• Load Wolvix from an ISO image on the hard drive instead of loading from the CD drive.

• Skip Wolvix login prompt and automatically start the X-Window system.

• Ask which VGA module to use instead of the default.

• Use one of the following VGA modes instead of the default:

Colors   | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
---------+---------------------------------------------
256      |   769     771      773      775       796
32,768   |   784     787      790      793       797
65,536   |   785     788      791      794       798
16.8M    |   786     789      792      795       799

• Set the bootsplash screen to Off, Verbose, or Silent (default) (Wolvix 1.1.0)

• Enable debug mode; hit Ctrl+D to continue booting.

• Test RAM with memtest (instead of starting Wolvix).