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| author | Luke <luke.wilde@live.co.uk> | 2021-04-17 20:36:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org> | 2021-04-18 17:01:22 +0200 |
| commit | c84107a1abc3e16f7fa685427cc0a6ef2b2ec745 (patch) | |
| tree | f06f7602b304e6f28c35ace15d42efacee7fc403 /Documentation | |
| parent | e98091ad159298dbaf6c8edb0372f6a4c12e8512 (diff) | |
| download | serenity-c84107a1abc3e16f7fa685427cc0a6ef2b2ec745.zip | |
Kernel: Add boot argument to disable the UHCI Controller
Helps with bare metal debugging, as we can't be sure our implementation
will work with a given machine.
As reported by someone on Discord, their machine hangs when we attempt
the dummy transfer.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/NetworkBoot.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/NetworkBoot.md b/Documentation/NetworkBoot.md index eea5e81a79..1b33ffe376 100644 --- a/Documentation/NetworkBoot.md +++ b/Documentation/NetworkBoot.md @@ -166,8 +166,12 @@ boot This file can be called in any name you'd want. For the sake of simplicity in this guide, this file is named `script.ipxe` from now on. Don't forget to replace `X.Y.Z.W` with your HTTP server IP address. -For troubleshooting purposes, you could add `disable_physical_storage` and `disable_ps2_controller` -if you suspect our implementation fails to work with your hardware. + +For troubleshooting purposes, you can add the following command line arguments if you suspect our implementation fails to work with your hardware: +- `disable_physical_storage` +- `disable_ps2_controller` +- `disable_uhci_controller` + Because iPXE (unlike GRUB) doesn't support VESA VBE modesetting when booting a multiboot kernel, you might not see any output, so add the `boot_mode=text` argument as well to boot into VGA text mode. |