Boot options

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Wed May 19 12:58:01 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 20:24, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> 
> > Any option on the kernel boot line that is not understood by the kernel
> > is parsed by anaconda. So items like 'pci=noacpi' are handled by the
> > kernel, and items like 'noprobe' or 'reiserfs' are handled by anaconda.
> 
> doesn't this have the potential for a conflict some day, if the anaconda 
> folks and the kernel folks accidentally choose the same keyword to 
> represent two different things?  it certainly seems like a possibility.
> 
> rday

Sure it's possible, but I believe it to be unlikely. I think the
anaconda and kernel guys know each other's email accounts and would work
it out before many folks would notice.

-- 
Chris Kloiber






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