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LILO is also able to pass command-line options to the kernel. Command-line options are words that follow the name of the boot image and that are separated by spaces.
boot: linux single root=200Recent kernels recognize a large number of options, among them are debug, no387, no-hlt, ramdisk=size, reserve=base,size,, root=device, ro, and rw. All current init programs also recognize the option single. The options lock and vga are processed by the boot loader itself. Boot command-line options are always case-sensitive.
There is also a plethora of options to specify certain characteristics (e.g. IO and memory addresses) of devices. Some common ones are ether, floppy, hd, bmouse, and sound. The usage of these options is option=number,. Please consult the corresponding FAQs and HOWTOs for details.
Options of the type variable=value which are neither standard options nor device-specific options, cause the respective variables to be set in the environment passed to init. The case of the variable name is preserved, i.e. it isn't automatically converted to upper case.
See the section on init below for further clues about these options.