[CentOS] additional boot options with older Compaq 1850R and DL360 and DL380 units

Will McDonald wmcdonald at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 09:40:49 UTC 2005


On 10/08/05, Robert Hanson <roberth at 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.



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