Installation guide

--driveorder
Specify which drive is first in the BIOS boot order. For example:
bootloader --driveorder=sda,hda
--location=
Specifies where the boot record is written. Valid values are the following: mbr (the default),
partition (installs the boot loader on the first sector of the partition containing the kernel),
or none (do not install the boot loader).
--password=
If using GRUB, sets the GRUB boot loader password to the one specified with this option.
This should be used to restrict access to the GRUB shell, where arbitrary kernel options can
be passed.
--md5pass=
If using GRUB, similar to --password= except the password should already be encrypted.
--upgrade
Upgrade the existing boot loader configuration, preserving the old entries. This option is
only available for upgrades.
clearpart (optional)
Removes partitions from the system, prior to creation of new partitions. By default, no parti-
tions are removed.
Note
If the clearpart command is used, then the --onpart command cannot be
used on a logical partition.
--all
Erases all partitions from the system.
--drives=
Specifies which drives to clear partitions from. For example, the following clears all the parti-
tions on the first two drives on the primary IDE controller:
clearpart --drives=hda,hdb --all
--initlabel
Initializes the disk label to the default for your architecture (for example msdos for x86 and
gpt for Itanium). It is useful so that the installation program does not ask if it should initialize
the disk label if installing to a brand new hard drive.
--linux
Erases all Linux partitions.
--none (default)
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