greetings
does the list at this url cover *all* options or are there some hidden or newer ones by chance?
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/ap-bootopts.html
i am playing with CentOS 4 on some Compaq dual PIII hardware. The first unit is an 1850R with dual 500Mhz. If you need more info please let me know. it is a basic unit with raid controller and a Gig of DRAM etc.
may i ask what others are putting in their "additional boot options" so that the units can he remotely shutdown to power off and/or rebooted without hanging please?
also, any _extra_ tips and tricks are certainly welcome.
again, i am grateful to those people that have been helping me off-list as well!
take care and kind regards,
-- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net
On 10/08/05, Robert Hanson roberth@abbacomm.net wrote:
does the list at this url cover *all* options or are there some hidden or newer ones by chance?
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/ap-bootopts.html
I was looking for something similar to a definitive list of boot options yesterday because of some problems installing FC4 onto an IBM Netfinity 3000...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157972
The "linux headless" option was a new one on me, "linux text" yes, but not "headless" and I wondered what else was available.
This was a PXE boot/Kickstart install and setup a text mode install in the .ks but even with that some probes were causing Anaconda to choke even with "skipx" or "xconfig --noprobe" prevented the problem. Anyway, passing the headless option as a kernel boot parameter worked, I suspect text would've too.
Here's the list for FC4, they may not all be applicable to CentOS.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=25826
Will.
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:40 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
On 10/08/05, Robert Hanson roberth@abbacomm.net wrote:
does the list at this url cover *all* options or are there some hidden or newer ones by chance?
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/ap-bootopts.html
I was looking for something similar to a definitive list of boot options yesterday because of some problems installing FC4 onto an IBM Netfinity 3000...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157972
The "linux headless" option was a new one on me, "linux text" yes, but not "headless" and I wondered what else was available.
This was a PXE boot/Kickstart install and setup a text mode install in the .ks but even with that some probes were causing Anaconda to choke even with "skipx" or "xconfig --noprobe" prevented the problem. Anyway, passing the headless option as a kernel boot parameter worked, I suspect text would've too.
Here's the list for FC4, they may not all be applicable to CentOS.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=25826
Will.
Here is a very good list:
http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaISOLINUXOptions
This seems to be almost the same thing:
<snip> } } The "linux headless" option was a new one on me, "linux text" yes, but } not "headless" and I wondered what else was available. } } This was a PXE boot/Kickstart install and setup a text mode install in } the .ks but even with that some probes were causing Anaconda to choke } even with "skipx" or "xconfig --noprobe" prevented the problem. } Anyway, passing the headless option as a kernel boot parameter worked, } I suspect text would've too. } } Here's the list for FC4, they may not all be applicable to CentOS. } } http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=25826 } } Will.
interesting and thank you for the pointers.
some quick searching for "linux headless" brought up a small bit of info as of August 10 2005 and i certainly learned some new stuff yet... it seems to me that the install toggle of
linux headless
could be better described as trying to install linux on a machine before having your coffee eh? ;->
kind regards,
-- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net
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