Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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?
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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
Thank you for your kind reply. I didn't install sources. I wonder whether I can browse the install discs? Unfortunately: $ ls /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.11/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txtls: /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.11/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: No such file or directory
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.
Thank you very much. Unfortunately:
$ ls /etc/rc.init
ls: /etc/rc.init: No such file or directory
Mike
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