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

Wed Aug 10 10:23:39 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:40 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
> 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.

Here is a very good list:

http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaISOLINUXOptions

This seems to be almost the same thing:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaIsoLinux0ptions


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