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## Name
Boot Parameters - optional parameters accepted by the kernel
## Description
Serenity's kernel can process parameters at boot time.
This functionality is used to control or augment the state of features during the initial
startup of the system.
### Options
The kernel boot parameters take the form of **`{option_name}={value}`**, where the **`={value}`**
trailer can be omitted for specific parameters.
List of options:
* **`acpi`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`on`** - Boot with full ACPI support, using ACPI
Machine Language interpretation (default). **`limited`** - Boot with limited ACPI support. **`off`** - Don't initialize ACPI at all.
* **`ahci_reset_mode`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`controllers`** - Reset just the AHCI controller on boot (default).
**`aggressive`** - Reset the AHCI controller, and all AHCI ports on boot.
* **`boot_prof`** - If present on the command line, global system profiling will be enabled
as soon as possible during the boot sequence. Allowing you to profile startup of all applications.
* **`disable_ide`** - If present on the command line, the IDE controller will not be initialized
during the boot sequence. Leaving only the AHCI and Ram Disk controllers.
* **`disable_physical_storage`** - If present on the command line, neither AHCI, or IDE controllers will be initialized on boot.
* **`disable_ps2_controller`** - If present on the command line, the I8042 keyboard controller will not be initialized on boot.
* **`disable_uhci_controller`** - If present on the command line, the UHCI controller will not be initialized on boot.
* **`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),
but only if **`acpi`** is set to **`limited`** or **`on`**, and a `MADT` (APIC) table is available.
Otherwise, the kernel will fallback to use the i8259 PICs.
* **`fbdev`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`on`**- Boot into the graphical environment (default). **`off`** - Boot into text mode. **`bootloader`** - Boot into the graphical environment, but only use the frame buffer set up by the bootloader and do not initialize any other graphics cards.
* **`force_pio`** - If present on the command line, the IDE controllers will be force into PIO mode when initialized IDE Channels on boot.
* **`hpet`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`periodic`** - The High Precision Event Timer should
be configured in a periodic mode. **`nonperiodic`** - The High Precision Event Timer should eb configure din non-periodic mode.
* **`init`** - This parameter expects the fully qualified path to the init program the Kernel should launch after boot.
This defaults to [`SystemServer`(7)](help://man/7/SystemServer).
* **`init_args`** - This parameter expects a set of arguments to pass to the **`init`** program.
The value should be a set of strings separated by `,` characters.
* **`panic`** - This parameter expects **`halt`** or **`shutdown`**. This is particularly useful in CI contexts.
* **`pci`** - This parameter expects **`ecam`**, **`io`** or **`none`**. When selecting **`none`**
the kernel will not use PCI resources/devices.
* **`root`** - This parameter configures the device to use as the root file system. It defaults to **`/dev/hda`** if unspecified.
* **`pcspeaker`** - This parameter controls whether the kernel can use the PC speaker or not. It defaults to **`off`** and can be set to **`on`** to enable the PC speaker.
* **`smp`** - This parameter expects a binary value of **`on`** or **`off`**. If enabled kernel will
enable available APs (application processors) and use them with the BSP (Bootstrap processor) to
schedule and run threads.
This parameter defaults to **`off`**. This parameter requires **`enable_ioapic`** to be enabled
and a `MADT` (APIC) table to be available.
* **`nvme_poll`** - This parameter configures the NVMe drive to use polling instead of interrupt driven completion.
* **`system_mode`** - This parameter is not interpreted by the Kernel, and is made available at `/proc/system_mode`. SystemServer uses it to select the set of services that should be started. Common values are:
- **`graphical`** (default) - Boots the system in the normal graphical mode.
- **`self-test`** - Boots the system in self-test, validation mode.
- **`text`** - Boots the system in text only mode. (You may need to also set **`fbdev=off`**.)
* **`time`** - This parameter expects one of the following values. **`modern`** - This configures the system to attempt
to use High Precision Event Timer (HPET) on boot. **`legacy`** - Configures the system to use the legacy programmable interrupt
time for managing system team.
* **`vmmouse`** - This parameter expects a binary value of **`on`** or **`off`**. If enabled and
running on a VMWare Hypervisor, the kernel will enable absolute mouse mode.
## See also
* [`SystemServer`(7)](help://man/7/SystemServer).
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