nix: Allow running (at least a part of) test suite from nix-shell

[novaboot.git] / README.pod

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@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ I<script2> configurations.
 
 =back
 
-=head1 PHASES AND OPTIONS
+=head1 OPTIONS AND PHASES
 
 Novaboot performs its work in several phases. Command line options
 described bellow influence the execution of each phase or allow their
@@ -804,9 +804,16 @@ word after C<load> is a file name (relative to the build directory
 (see B<--build-dir>) of the module to load and the remaining words are
 passed to it as the command line parameters.
 
+When booting Linux, the first C<load> line usually refers to the
+kernel image and its command line parameters (unless you use some
+special pre-loader). Other C<load> lines may refer to an initramfs
+image and/or a device tree blob. Their order is not important, as the
+device tree is recognized as the file name ending with C<.dtb>.
+
 When the C<load> line ends with "<<WORD" then the subsequent lines
 until the line containing solely WORD are copied literally to the file
-named on that line. This is similar to shell's heredoc feature.
+named on that line. This is similar to the heredoc feature of UNIX
+shells.
 
 When the C<load> line ends with "< CMD" then command CMD is executed
 with F</bin/sh> and its standard output is stored in the file named on