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24 .Nd Petitboot ncurses bootloader UI
29 .Op Fl d, -start-daemon
31 .Op Fl l, -log Ar log-file
36 petitboot-nc is an ncurses based interface to the Petitboot bootloader.
38 Petitboot is a Linux kexec based bootloader that supports loading Linux
39 kernel and initrd images from any device that can be mounted by Linux.
40 It can also load images from the network using the
41 HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, SFTP, and TFTP
46 .Bl -tag -width indent
48 .It Fl d, -start-daemon
49 Start pb-discover, the petitboot dynamic device discovery daemon, if it has
50 not been started. This option is mainly useful when running petitboot as a
51 stand-alone application.
56 .It Fl l, -log Ar log-file
57 Log messages to the file
59 The default log is a file /var/log/petitboot-nc.log. New messages are
60 appended to an existing log file.
63 Display the program version number.
67 .Xr petitboot 8 , Xr petitboot-twin 8 , Xr pb-discover 8 , Xr pb-event 8
71 Send bug reports to Geoff Levand <geoff @ infradead.org>