In the grub.conf configuration file I can specify command line parameters that the kernel will use, i.e.:
kernel /boot/kernel-3-2-1-gentoo root=/dev/sda1 vga=791
After booting a given kernel, is there a way to display the command line parameters that were passed to the kernel in the first place? I’ve found sysctl,
sysctl --all
but sysctl shows up all possible kernel parameters.
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Method 1
$ cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/xvda xencons=tty console=tty1 console=hvc0 nosep nodevfs ramdisk_size=32768 ip_conntrack.hashsize=8192 nf_conntrack.hashsize=8192 ro devtmpfs.mount=1 $
Method 2
The kernel also printks them at the beginning of boot, see:
dmesg | grep "Command line"
Sample output:
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-112-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root ro
This can be useful information on the serial if you are hacking stuff and the kernel panics instead of booting 🙂
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