NAME

       palo - boot media management tool for PA-RISC/HPPA.

SYNOPSIS

       palo [options]

DESCRIPTION

       palo 2.24 - boot media management tool for PA-RISC/HPPA.

       -?, --help
              Print this information

       -c, --commandline=default kernel command line

              Maximum 1023 characters.

       -k, --recoverykernel=path to recovery kernel (perhaps /boot/vmlinux)

       -b, --bootloader=path to boot loader (usually /usr/share/palo/iplboot)

       -r, --ramdisk=path to initial ramdisk image

       -I, --init-partitioned=partitioned device or file

              Initialize  a  pre-partitioned  device, usually a hard disk.  The partition table is not modified.
              Requires only -c and -b though -k is customary and prudent.

       -U, --update-partitioned=partitioned device or file

              Update a pre-partitioned device, usually a hard  disk.   The  partition  table  is  not  modified.
              Usually used to modify the default kernel command line (-c).

       -s, --init-tape=file

              Initialize  an  unpartitioned  file  which  can be copied to tape, disk, or used as a bootp image.
              Requires -c, -b, -k.

       -C, --init-cdrom=iso-image-file

              Convert an ISO image already containing a kernel, boot loader, and optionally a  ramdisk,  into  a
              PA-RISC  bootable  image.   Requires  -c,  -b, -k, and optionally -r.  The files named on the palo
              command line must have EXACTLY the same contents as those already in the ISO image.

       -f, --configfile=path to config file

              Each line in the named configuration file is added as a separate argument to the beginning of  the
              palo command line arguments (thus command-line options override config file options).

              Short  or long options can be used with long options peferred for readability in the configuration
              file.  WARNING: No quotations or other shell syntax is understood, so use

              --commandline=a b c

       not    --commandline='a b c'.

       The short-option config file form of the above is:
              -c a b c

              Blank lines and lines beginning with # are ignored.  Whitespace at the beginning and ends of lines
              is discarded.

       When -f is not specified, palo tries /etc/palo.conf.
              Use

              --configfile=/dev/null to avoid configuration files or warnings when /etc/palo.conf is missing.

       -v, --verbose

              Provide more verbose information when running palo

       -e, --format-as=type

              This is only for partitioned media. Format the palo partition as an ext2 (type == 2),  ext3  (type
              ==  3) or ext4 (type == 4) partition. With this option, you cannot specify any parameters, kernels
              or ramdisks to be loaded into the palo partition

       'palo' with no arguments whatsoever is equivalent to 'palo -f /etc/palo.conf'.

       When more than one of -I, -U, -s and -C are used, only the last one is effective.

       palo version 2.24 https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org - Tue, 30 May 2023 14:10:51 +0200

       palo is the installation and management tool  for  the  parisc  bootloader,  called  iplboot.   The  size
       required  for  the iplboot binary is 256kb.  Older MS-DOS label disks begin the first partition at sector
       63 and there is no room for iplboot within the disk label, so you must create a palo partition of type F0
       to hold iplboot.  If your disk was formatted more recently it should have a newer MS-DOS label where  the
       first  partition begins at sector 2048 meaning there is room for iplboot within the disk label and a palo
       (F0) partition is not required.

       If you have a palo partition (type F0), it must occur within the first 2GB of the beginning of the  disk.
       If  you  choose to have a palo partition, you may store both the kernel and the initrd in this partition,
       meaning you have to update it every time you update the kernel,  or  you  may  choose  to  have  a  /boot
       partition,  which  must  be formatted as an ext2/3/4 filesystem, from which palo will load kernels.  This
       /boot partition also must be within the first 2GB of the beginning of the disk.   If  you  have  no  palo
       partition,  and palo is installed inside the disk label, you must have a /boot partition because the disk
       label is still too small to contain a kernel and a ramdisk.

       Palo allows you to specify a kernel command line, which is stored in the firstboot partition.  The format
       should be kernel first followed by an optional initrd= and then the rest of the kernel  parameters.   The
       format  of the kernel and initial ramdisk files is <partition number>/<path to file>.  It is recommended,
       but not required, that both the kernel  and  the  initial  ramdisk  be  in  the  root  directory  of  the
       filesystem.

EXAMPLES

       Create a Bootable disk on sda for the first time by installing palo

           $ palo -c "1/vmlinux initrd=1/initrd.img" -I /dev/sda

       Update the bootloader command line without re-installing it

           $ palo -c "1/vmlinux.new initrd=1/initrd.img.new" -U /dev/sda

       Format  the  palo  partition  as  ext4  and  install  iplboot  within that partition using ext4 badblocks
       [requires a palo (type F0) partition]:

           $ palo  palo -c "1/vmlinux initrd=1/initrd.img" --format-as=4 -I /dev/sda

palo 2.24 - boot media management tool for PA-RI... May 2023                                             PALO(8)