Re: [multiboot] command-line format

[Seth Goldberg]

Quoting Grégoire Sutre, who wrote the following on Fri, 15 Jan 2010:

> Seth Goldberg wrote:
>
> >   Solaris uses the first argument (and it is essential to the kernel 
> > loading process actually).
>
> That's good to know, thanks.  So the list of multiboot-compliant kernels that 
> (are known to) assume a GRUB Legacy command-line format becomes: Xen, 
> Solaris, NetBSD.
>
> Does anybody know how Linux works with respect to this?

 Linux doesn't use multiboot -- it has its own convention for passing 
information between the boot loader and the kernel.

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