A guide to editing the boot parameter

• Boot into GRUB by burning the default official Webconverger iso and booting your machine with it

• Edit the first menu by pressing [e]

• Now edit the BOOT PARAMETER line by pressing [e] again!

• After editing, press [ENTER] and then [b] to boot into your own customised Webconverger!

Some examples of what you can customise easily

Your own homepage

Edit homepage=

See homepage

Use Webconverger in German

append locale=de

i18n support, i.e. non-english locales is only in maxi

Specify a HTTP proxy at 192.168.1.5 with port 8888

append http_proxy=http://192.168.1.5:8888

To do some debugging

remove nosudo

Once Webconverger is booted, shift+alt+enter for a Terminal. =)

Set the resolution to 800x600 pixels

append xvideomode=800x600

Want more? See develop and features

Caveats

usb .img

usb unfortunately does not support the GRUB boot loader currently. So you can’t customise you USB image very easily. However you can mount you USB image and tweak your syslinux.cfg very easily by hand. Try it.

And your changes are permanent!