From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264930AbTLRESd (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:18:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264931AbTLRESd (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:18:33 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:22710 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264930AbTLRESb (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:18:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:13:50 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: zhimin@iss.nus.edu.sg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Looking for kernel boot option documentation Message-Id: <20031217201350.231a8e55.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:09:16 +0800 Choo Zhi Min wrote: | Hi, | | Where can I find documentation on kernel boot options? | | I have seen kernel boot options that look very similar to each other that | I don't know if it is typo-error or just alternative form. | | E.g. | | apic | apicon | apic=on | noapic | | acpi=off | acpi=force | acpismp=force | pci-noacpi | pci=noacpi See this text file in the kernel tarball: linux-m.n.p/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt where m.n.p is replaced by a version number (major, minor, patchlevel). -- ~Randy