Appendix B. Advanced Linuxrc Options

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Passing parameters to Linuxrc
info file format
Advanced Network Setup

Linuxrc is a program used for setting up the kernel for installation purposes. It allows the user to load modules, start an installed system, a rescue system or an installation via YaST.

Linuxrc is designed to be as small as possible. Therefore, all needed programs are linked directly into one binary. So there is no need for shared libraries in the initdisk.

	Note
	If you run Linuxrc on an installed system, it will work slightly differently so as not to destroy your installation. As a consequence you cannot test all features this way.

Passing parameters to Linuxrc

Unless Linuxrc is in manual mode, it will look for an info file in these locations: first /info on the floppy disk and if that does not exist, for /info in the initrd. After that it parses the kernel command line for parameters. You may change the info file Linuxrc reads by setting the info command line parameter. If you do not want Linuxrc to read the kernel command line (e.g. because you need to specify a kernel parameter that Linuxrc recognizes as well), use linuxrc=nocmdline.

	Change since SUSE Linux 10.2
	The `info` file is no longer implicitly read. You have to make it explicit, like 'info=floppy:/info'.

Linuxrc will always look for and parse a file /linuxrc.config. Use this file to change default values if you need to. In general, it is better to use the info file instead. Note that /linuxrc.config is read before any info file, even in manual mode.


Appendix A. Handling Rules		`info` file format