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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-04-24 10:48:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-04-24 13:46:02 +0200 |
| commit | ad8fe0829f3860bf6f679576bbd5827f46133372 (patch) | |
| tree | d5bfe8f2bf7db3fd3f654bdd1ba5f51c00707a79 /man7/bootparam.7 | |
| parent | d041270a37e655e0883cdb87a9bc66f620a7c688 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-ad8fe0829f3860bf6f679576bbd5827f46133372.tar.gz | |
bootparam.7: Remove crufty text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/bootparam.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/bootparam.7 | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7 index 8dd4727830..2950bc28c4 100644 --- a/man7/bootparam.7 +++ b/man7/bootparam.7 @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ supply the kernel with information about hardware parameters that the kernel would not be able to determine on its own, or to avoid/override the values that the kernel would otherwise detect. -When the kernel is booted directly by the BIOS (say from a floppy to -which you copied a kernel using 'cp zImage /dev/fd0'), +When the kernel is booted directly by the BIOS, you have no opportunity to specify any parameters. So, in order to take advantage of this possibility you have to use a boot loader that is able to pass parameters, such as GRUB. |