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authorColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2009-02-28 16:23:52 +0000
committerColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>2009-02-28 16:23:52 +0000
commit6d94a04b80cfdf4211556b3868e5dceeccb90f06 (patch)
treee6c0624f6528afb6ea2a991b7f3b413d28c42d5c /en
parent6db2359f9010eaffce6aed0fbcbdf04e0cb8f092 (diff)
downloadinstallation-guide-6d94a04b80cfdf4211556b3868e5dceeccb90f06.zip
Clarify behaviour of "auto" preseed alias.
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diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
index e75882188..4d3a5afa9 100644
--- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
@@ -480,13 +480,14 @@ for you.
</para><para>
-The <literal>auto</literal> boot label is not yet defined on all
-architectures. The same effect may be achieved by simply adding the two
-parameters <literal>auto=true priority=critical</literal> to the kernel
-command line. The <literal>auto</literal> parameter is an alias for
-<literal>auto-install/enable</literal> and controls the delay of the
-locale and keyboard questions until after there has been a chance to
-preseed them, while <literal>priority</literal> is an alias for
+The <literal>auto</literal> boot label is not yet defined everywhere.
+The same effect may be achieved by simply adding the two parameters
+<literal>auto=true priority=critical</literal> to the kernel command
+line. The <literal>auto</literal> parameter is an alias for
+<literal>auto-install/enable</literal> and setting it to
+<literal>true</literal> delays the locale and keyboard questions until
+after there has been a chance to preseed them, while
+<literal>priority</literal> is an alias for
<literal>debconf/priority</literal> and setting it to
<literal>critical</literal> stops any questions with a lower priority
from being asked.