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| -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. |