On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:29:32PM +0100, Christian Schaefer wrote: > i'm writing to you concerning 2.4 kernel boot parameters which are used by an > IBM NetVista Thin Client 2200 (alias NetStation 8363-EXX, alias N2200) on > startup. > > By now i boot the N2200 with a patched 2.4.27 Kernel compiled with gcc-3.3.5 > (based on a Debian-System). The Patch was delivered by the IBM toolkit > package NetVistaLTC.tar.gz and is attached to this message. > > N2200 passes different Parameters to the Kernel, which i had partly identified > with the 2.4 Kernel Documentation (Documentation\kernel-parameters.txt). > Below is a list of all passed Parameters: > > root=/dev/hda1 - Root Filesystem > V=1024x768 - (?Resolution?) > D=16 - ???? > ip=192.168.0.200:0.0.0.0:192.168.0.1:255.255.255.0:localhost:eth0 > - IP-Address specified in nfsroot.txt > load_ramdisk=1 - Ramdisk Support is enabled. > n1=1.2.3.4 - DNS entry > n2=0.0.0.0 - yet another DNS entry > pf=2 - The ParIDE subsystem is enabled. > vga=4 - Boot Loader Parameter (Display-Setting) > > There are some Parameters in the list which i could not identify. Among these > is the Parameter D=16. > > Does anyone know what kind of parameter this is, or where i do find > documentation about it? Any parameters not parsed by the kernel are given as arguments to the first process (usually /sbin/init). You have to look at userspace sources and not at kernel sources to figure out what the remaining parameters mean. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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