Document most undocumented boot parameters (bug #370369)

cleanup-cruft
Sebastian Pipping 14 years ago
parent 4798c47375
commit 6051fcf1ee

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# Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Id$
07 Jun 2011; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> doc/genkernel.8.txt:
Document most undocumented boot parameters (bug #370369)
07 Jun 2011; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> doc/genkernel.8.txt:
Docs: Fix mixup of boot parameters real_init= and init_opts=

@ -452,6 +452,84 @@ which the ramdisk scripts would recognize.
This can be useful when support for ext2/ext3/ext4 are
in competition. Default is "auto".
*docache*::
*nocache*::
Enables/disables caching of CD contents in RAM.
*root*=<...>::
Omit or specify as "/dev/ram0".
For other values be sure to know what you're doing.
*subdir*=<...>::
switch_root into "<CHROOT>/<SUBDIR>" instead of "<CHROOT>/".
<CHROOT> is "/newroot" (or "/union") usually.
*debug*::
Drop into a debug shell early in the process.
*noload*=<...>::
List of modules to skip loading.
Separate using commas or spaces.
*nodetect*::
Skipping scanning modules using "modprobe <MODULE> -n".
Use *doload=* for specifying a whitelist of exceptions.
*doload*=<...>::
List of modules to load despite *nodetect*.
*domodules*::
*nomodules*::
Enables/disables loading of modules in general.
*CONSOLE*=<...>::
*console*=<...>::
Override location of console, default is "/dev/console".
*part*=<...>::
Specify part for mdadm to start. This is the relevant code in mdstart:
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fd = open("/dev/md<MD_NUMBER>", 0, 0);
ioctl(fd, RAID_AUTORUN, <MDPART>);
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*iscsi_initiatorname*=<...>::
*iscsi_target*=<...>::
*iscsi_tgpt*=<...>::
*iscsi_address*=<...>::
*iscsi_port*=<...>::
*iscsi_username*=<...>::
*iscsi_password*=<...>::
*iscsi_username_in*=<...>::
*iscsi_password_in*=<...>::
*iscsi_debug*=<...>::
*iscsi_noibft*::
Specify iSCSI parameters.
*unionfs*::
*nounionfs*::
Enables/disables UnionFS.
*real_rootflags*=<...>::
Additional flags to mount the real root system with.
For expamle *real_rootflags*=noatime would make "-o ro,noatime".
*real_resume*=<...>::
*resume*=<...>::
*noresume*::
TO BE DOCUMENTED
*cdroot*[=<...>]::
*cdroot_type*=<...>::
TO BE DOCUMENTED
*loop*=<...>::
*looptype*=<...>::
TO BE DOCUMENTED
*isoboot*=<...>::
TO BE DOCUMENTED
NETBOOTING
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