[oe] kernel booting and params

[Gary Thomas]

On 01/27/2010 06:03 AM, Alex wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> Trying to find information about kernel booting gave me nothing so I decided to write here.
>
> The question is: how does linux kernel know where to get its parameters' string? To be more precise, what actions in general should a linux bootloader do to tell the kernel its
> params and boot it?
>
> Maybe someone knows where to find an information about it?
>
> Exploring the sources of GRUB seemed hard to me to understand...

This process is different for every architecture (x86, arm, powerpc, ...)

What platform(s) are you trying to understand?

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