CentOS - Aug 2005 - additional boot options with older Compaq 1850R and DL360 and DL380 units

greetings

does the list at this url cover *all* options or are there some hidden or
newer ones by chance?

http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/ap-bootopts.html

i am playing with CentOS 4 on some Compaq dual PIII hardware. The first unit
is an 1850R with dual 500Mhz. If you need more info please let me know. it
is a basic unit with raid controller and a Gig of DRAM etc.

may i ask what others are putting in their "additional boot options"
so that
the units can he remotely shutdown to power off and/or rebooted without
hanging please?

also, any _extra_ tips and tricks are certainly welcome.

again, i am grateful to those people that have been helping me off-list as
well!

take care and kind regards,

--
Robert Hanson
Abba Communications
http://www.abbacomm.net

On 10/08/05, Robert Hanson <roberth at abbacomm.net>
wrote:
> does the list at this url cover *all* options or are there some hidden or
> newer ones by chance?
> 
> http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/ap-bootopts.html
I was looking for something similar to a definitive list of boot
options yesterday because of some problems installing FC4 onto an IBM
Netfinity 3000...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157972

The "linux headless" option was a new one on me, "linux
text" yes, but
not "headless" and I wondered what else was available.

This was a PXE boot/Kickstart install and setup a text mode install in
the .ks but even with that some probes were causing Anaconda to choke
even with "skipx" or "xconfig --noprobe" prevented the
problem.
Anyway, passing the headless option as a kernel boot parameter worked,
I suspect text would've too.

Here's the list for FC4, they may not all be applicable to CentOS.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=25826

Will.