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| author | Liav A <liavalb@gmail.com> | 2022-03-15 22:04:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Groh <mail@linusgroh.de> | 2022-03-18 09:22:10 +0000 |
| commit | eca8f292a56f8a0000532c15081a753cc21878b1 (patch) | |
| tree | a6adca58d7c3d6fc4f1420f3ba0af40591e05b7d /Base | |
| parent | 0ef1137e8833fdcd7f859ec02cbf7b93f5f0c4f9 (diff) | |
| download | serenity-eca8f292a56f8a0000532c15081a753cc21878b1.zip | |
Kernel: Allow to disable early boot console
This aid debugging on bare metal when we suspect that the boot console
does something wrong that interferes with other kernel components.
Diffstat (limited to 'Base')
| -rw-r--r-- | Base/usr/share/man/man7/boot_parameters.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Base/usr/share/man/man7/boot_parameters.md b/Base/usr/share/man/man7/boot_parameters.md index 0a1fc305ae..9618e93a00 100644 --- a/Base/usr/share/man/man7/boot_parameters.md +++ b/Base/usr/share/man/man7/boot_parameters.md @@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ List of options: * **`disable_virtio`** - If present on the command line, virtio devices will not be detected, and initialized on boot. +* **`early_boot_console`** - This parameter expects **`on`** or **`off`** and is by default set to **`on`**. + When set to **`off`**, the kernel will not initialize any early console to show kernel dmesg output. + When set to **`on`**, the kernel will try to initialize either a text mode console (if VGA text mode was detected) + or framebuffer console, based on what the Multiboot bootloader specified on the physical address, width, height + and bit color depth. + * **`enable_ioapic`** - This parameter expects **`on`** or **`off`** and is by default set to **`on`**. When set to **`off`**, the kernel will initialize the two i8259 PICs. When set to **`on`**, the kernel will try to initialize the IOAPIC (or IOAPICs if there's more than one), |