Boot Parameters

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 26.07.2005 schrieb Mike McCarty um 3:26:

> I have a question which I have as yet been unable to answer.
> 
> What are the boot parameters which can be passed to the kernel,
> what do they mean, and why are they present?
> 
> For example, rhgb. I suppose that this is an acronym which
> stands for Red Had Graphics Boot. But I don't *know* that.

You are correct about the acronym meaning. It is not correct, that this
is a kernel parameter.

> Can anyone document all such parameters, what they stand for,
> and why one would chose to use them?

Kernel parameters are documented in a text file in the kernel sources or
inside the kernel-doc package in file

/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.11/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Other possible parameters you could document yourself by reading
/etc/rc.sysinit. For example you will find in that init script the check
for the "rhgb" call.
If I remember correctly a helpful guy did the work already in the past
and mailed a list here on this list.

> Mike

Alexander


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