[ale] Ale Digest, Vol 159, Issue 31

[James Taylor]

You can manually edit the boot loader file, but with openSUSE you can run yast2|system|bootloader and edit the settings there.
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James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
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>>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at  5:40 PM, in message
<37cffb310708241440y5d1da314he6f731d97a35821d at mail.gmail.com>, "Scully Wu"
<hxsrmeng at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Thanks. I am using SUSE10.2.
> 
> So can I add "usbcore.blinkenlights=1" to the end of the line
> "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.1 root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x303    resume=/dev/hda6
> splash=silent showopts" in my /boot/grub/menu.lst?
> 
> Do I need reboot?
> 
> Can I pass the parameter now and forevermore by this way? Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> Message: 6
>> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:22:37 -0400
>> From: "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us>
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Newbi question: How can I pass paramenters to my
>>         kernel?
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> Message-ID: <46CF3E0D.2050604 at trausch.us>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> Scully Wu, on 08/24/2007 04:12 PM said:
>> > My usbcore is not a module, it's built in.
>> > I'd like to pass parameter
>> > usbcore.blinkenlights=1
>> > to the kernel
>> >
>> > where can I do it?
>> > I try this in the console command line. but it said "usbcore: command
>> > not found"
>> >
>> > Below is what I have:
>> > "
>> > /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.1/drivers/usb/core/.usbcore.o.cmd
>> > <http://2.6.22.1/drivers/usb/core/.usbcore.o.cmd>
>> > /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.1/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.o
>> > <http://2.6.22.1/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.o>
>> > "
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>>
>> The kernel takes its command line parameters from the boot-loader, such
>> as GRUB or LILO.
>>
>> For GRUB, your kernel parameters go on the "kernel" line; for LILO, they
>> go on an "append=" line, IIRC.
>>
>> Some operating systems, like Debian-based ones, build the boot loader
>> configuration dynamically.  If you want to pass the parameter now and
>> forevermore, regardless of kernel upgrades, then at least on Ubuntu
>> systems, you can put the parameter in question on the line that says:
>>
>> # defoptions=quiet splash
>>
>> ... after "splash".  Don't remove the # character, because even though
>> it's commented out, it's used as information to rebuild the file.
>>
>>         HTH,
>>         Mike
>>
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