.\" Copyright (C) 2004  Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
.\" This manual is freely distributable under the terms of the GPL.
.\" It was originally written for Debian GNU/Linux (but may be used
.\" by others).
.\"

.TH DEFAULT.COLO 5 "April 2004"

.SH NAME
default.colo \- default configuration file for CoLo

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
By default, CoLo will look for the file
.B /boot/default.colo
located on the partition of your hard drive which is marked bootable.  If
this configuration file exists, CoLo will execute all commands found
therein.  The
.B default.colo
file is therefore typically used to load a kernel from a specific partition
(with an EXT2/3 file system) and to execute this kernel, possibly passing
it some boot parameters.

.SH COMMANDS

The most important commands are:

.TP
\fBmount [partition]\fR

Mounts the selected partition as an EXT2/3 file system.  The partition
argument is a Linux style device name (for example, hda2).  If omitted,
the first partition marked as a bootable Linux partition will be mounted.
If no partition is marked bootable the first Linux partition will be
mounted.

.TP
\fBload path [path]\fR

Load the specified file into memory.  An optional second file can be
specified that will also be loaded and used as an initrd image.

.TP
\fBexecute [arguments ...] \fR

Starts executing the ELF image that is in memory.  If the image is
compressed with gzip, it will be uncompressed automatically.  Any arguments
given will be passed to the executed program (usually the kernel).

.SH SEE ALSO
.PP

A listing and explanation of all possible commands which can be used in
CoLo's configuration file can be found at
.IR /usr/share/doc/colo/README.shell .

.SH FILES
.PP
.IR /usr/share/colo/examples/default.colo
\- a sample default.colo configuration file

.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.org>