banjo Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 I have been recently looking at /etc/lilo.conf to see if I can to make a change to the way the kernel is booted. I understand how to use lilo, but I was wondering what the meaning of the kernel arguments are, for example, what exactly does "quiet" mean? These are the arguments that are specified in the append= command in lilo.conf. Can anybody point me to a document or man page that describes what all the kernel arguments are? I looked in the lilo man page and the lilo.conf man page and did not see it. They tell me how to specify the append= command but not what the arguments mean. Thanks Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 If I remember correctly 'quiet' means no scrolling text during boot. Can't find anything else either. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted July 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 Thanks for the reply. I have been searching for the list of arguments and I cannot find a document which details them. Perhaps that information is available only to those who dig around in the kernel source. I might go look there if I cannot find the info elsewhere. Now all I have to do is go find the kernel source. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolf Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 A couple of places to find explanations of kernel arguments: /usr/src/linux-{version}/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/BootPrompt/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html The Howto is in howto-html-en in my install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted July 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 Thanks for the pointers. I found some answers in the HOWTO. I guess I will have to install the kernel source to get the other documentation since it is not on my system right now. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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