Boot options

[Chris Kloiber]

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:51, robin-lists at robinbowes.com wrote:
> robin-lists at robinbowes.com wrote:
> > Chris Kloiber wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:23, robin-lists at robinbowes.com wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> Someone asked on the list recently about installing to alternative
> >>> filesystems. The way to do this was to pass the name of the file
> >>> system as a parameter when booting, e.g. "linux XFS" or whatever.
> >>> 
> >>> This has led me to wonder what other boot options are available. Is
> >>> there a definitive list somewhere that explains what options are
> >>> available and what they all do?
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Anaconda is open-source. "Use the code, Luke..."
> > 
> > Chris,
> > 
> > Is it Anaconda that provides these options, or is it the kernel?
> > 
> > I suppose your suggestion holds good for both :o)
> 
> I checked out the anaconda source and, in the docs directory is a file
> "command-line.txt" which lists all the anaconda command line options with a
> short description. However, there is no mention in there of the filesystem
> options to which I refer above. I can only conclude that I'm looking in the
> wrong place and that these are indeed a kernel options
> 
> I'm grabbing the tettnang DVD ISO from bittorrent as I type so I'll burn
> myself a DVD and experiment.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> R.

The options in that document are the ones that the anaconda developers
want to admit to, or have had time to document... :) 

Grep the source code for those options (especially those that are not
really English words) and poke around in the files that turn up.

-- 
Chris Kloiber