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.
--S
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