Linux booting is a complex process compared to other operating systems. The Linux Kernel accepts many parameters during boot, passed through the command line, which provide essential information to the kernel at system startup.
Think of these parameters as special instructions you give to the kernel before it even starts running the operating system.
With them, you can tell the kernel:
which disk contains your root filesystem?
how much memory to use?
whether to load certain hardware features.
or even how to handle errors during startup.
Without them, the kernel would not know how to properly initialize the system.
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