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-.TH BOOTPARAM 7 2013-08-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH BOOTPARAM 7 2014-06-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
bootparam \- introduction to boot time parameters of the Linux kernel
.SH DESCRIPTION
is major 8, minor 3, so you could use 'root=0x803' as an
alternative.)
.TP
+.BR "'rootdelay='"
+This parameter sets the delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting
+to mount the root filesystem.
+.TP
+.BR "'rootflags=...'"
+This parameter sets the mount option string for the root filesystem
+(see also
+.BR fstab (5)).
+.TP
.BR "'rootfstype=...'"
The 'rootfstype' option tells the kernel to mount the root filesystem as
if it where of the type specified.
LUNs not equal to zero.
Therefore, if the compile-time flag
.B CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN
-is not set, newer kernels will by default only probe LUN zero.
+is not set, newer kernels will by default probe only LUN zero.
To specify the number of probed LUNs at boot, one enters
\&'max_scsi_luns=n' as a boot arg, where n is a number between one and
An up-to-date source of information is the kernel source file
.IR Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt .
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.67 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,