On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:51, robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Chris Kloiber wrote: > >> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:23, robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Someone asked on the list recently about installing to alternative > >>> filesystems. The way to do this was to pass the name of the file > >>> system as a parameter when booting, e.g. "linux XFS" or whatever. > >>> > >>> This has led me to wonder what other boot options are available. Is > >>> there a definitive list somewhere that explains what options are > >>> available and what they all do? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >> > >> Anaconda is open-source. "Use the code, Luke..." > > > > Chris, > > > > Is it Anaconda that provides these options, or is it the kernel? > > > > I suppose your suggestion holds good for both :o) > > I checked out the anaconda source and, in the docs directory is a file > "command-line.txt" which lists all the anaconda command line options with a > short description. However, there is no mention in there of the filesystem > options to which I refer above. I can only conclude that I'm looking in the > wrong place and that these are indeed a kernel options > > I'm grabbing the tettnang DVD ISO from bittorrent as I type so I'll burn > myself a DVD and experiment. > > Cheers, > > R. The options in that document are the ones that the anaconda developers want to admit to, or have had time to document... :) Grep the source code for those options (especially those that are not really English words) and poke around in the files that turn up. -- Chris Kloiber
