Re: Kernel Parameter Passing

2002-10-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
IIRC, we have discussed the same issue in this list several times. The reasons why such a feature has never been implemented in the official source tree are: * It would break backward compatibility, because GRUB must pass the arguments to an OS image as they are. Modifying them (e.g.

Kernel Parameter Passing

2002-10-06 Thread Vasanthan
Hi, I have added some code to Grub so that it could pass some information to kernel. This idea came when i try to boot Linux remotely using Grub. ( There is only one laptop that could be used as Linux server in that windows network ). The parameters obtained by Grub form bootp server can't