When starting Tails, you can specify startup options to alter some of its basic functioning. The two ways of specifying startup options are the following:

Using the boot menu

The boot menu is the first screen to appears when Tails starts.

1. To add a boot option, press Tab when the boot menu appears. A list of boot options appears at the bottom of the screen.

1. Press Space, and type the boot option that you want to add.

2. If you want to add more than one boot option, type them one after the other, and separate them by a Space.

3. Then press Enter to start Tails.

Here is a list of options that you can add to the boot menu:

• truecrypt, to enable TrueCrypt

Using Tails Greeter

Tails Greeter is the set of dialogs that appear after the boot menu, but before the GNOME Desktop appears. This is how to first screen of Tails Greeter looks like:

To start Tails without options, click on the Login button, or just press Enter.

To start Tails in languages other than English, select the one you want from the menu at the bottom of the screen. You can also adapt your country and keyboard layout. When you do that, Tails Greeter itself switches language.

To set more options, click on the Yes button. Then click on the Forward button.

Here is a list of options that you can set using Tails Greeter:

• Administration password
• Windows camouflage
• MAC address spoofing
• Network configuration
  • Tor bridge mode

Problems booting?

If you have problems booting Tails, please read the following guidelines.