See also: [[http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#bootcodes|List of bootcodes in FAQ]]

===== Tinycore specific boot options =====

==== Persistence options ====

| tinycore tce={hda1:sda1} | Specify Restore TCE apps directory|
| tinycore restore={hda1:sda1:floppy} | Specify saved configuration location|
| tinycore waitusb=X                  | [[waitusb| See detailed page]]|
| tinycore swapfile{=hda1}            | Scan or Specify for a swap file|
| tinycore home={hda1:sda1:tcvd}      | Specify persistent home directory.|
| tinycore [[Boot option opt|opt=]]{hda1:sda1:tcvd}       | Specify persistent opt directory.|
| tinycore local={hda1:sda1:tcvd}     | Specify PPI directory or loopback file. **This option is not available with 4.0 or newer**|
| tinycore lst=yyy.lst           | Load alternate yyy.lst on boot. yyy.lst is expected to reside in $DRIVE/tce where $DRIVE is the drive specified by the tce= bootcode. |
| tinycore base            | Skip TCE load only the base system|
| tinycore norestore       | Turn off the automatic restore|
| tinycore safebackup      | Saves a backup copy (mydatabk.tgz) |
| tinycore showapps        |Display application names when booting|

==== Other options ====

| tinycore noswap                     | Do not use swap partition|
| tinycore xsetup          |            Prompt user for Xvesa setup|
| tinycore {cron:syslog}              | Start various daemons at boot|
| tinycore lang=en                    | Choose Language (currently english only)|
| tinycore kmap=us                    | Choose Keyboard (currently us only)|
| tinycore host=xxxx                  | Set hostname to xxxx \\ (This will end up in file /etc/hostname )|
| ::: | ::: |
| tinycore [[Boot option nodhcp|nodhcp]]  | Skip the dhcp request for eth0 at boot|
| tinycore superuser                  | Textmode as user root|
| tinycore text                       | Textmode|
| tinycore tcvd={hda1/file.img}       | Specify virtual raw disk partition.|
| tinycore nolocal                    | Skip autoscan for previously setup PPI.|
| tinycore secure                     | Set password.|
| tinycore [[Boot option protect|protect]]                    | Password Encrypted Backup.|
| tinycore pause                      | Pause at completion of boot messages.\\ Prompt user to press Enter.|
| ::: | ::: |
| tinycore noautologin                | Do not log in automatically, prompt for username. |
| tinycore noutc                      | BIOS is using localtime.|
| tinycore tz=GMT+8                   | Timezone tz=PST+8PDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2|
| tinycore nortc                    | Set UTC time at boot, internet required.|
| tinycore user=abc                   | Specify alternate user.|
| tinycore desktop=yyy                | Specify alternate window manager|
| tinycore noicons                    | Do not use icons.|
| tinycore xvesa=800x600x32           | Set Xvesa default screen resolution.|
| tinycore bkg=image.{jpg:png:gif}    | Set background from /opt/backgrounds|
| tinycore vga=ask         | Allow to choose framebuffer resolution form the list |
| tinycore vga=7xx         | See table below for possible values for 7xx.|
| tinycore vga=0x312         | See table below for possible values for 0x312|

=== Values for boot option "vga=7xx" ===
| Color          |  640x480   |  800x600   |   1024x768  |   1280x1024  |
|   256  (8 bit) |   769      |   771      |     773     |     775      |
| 32000 (15 bit) |   784      |   787      |     790     |     793      |
| 65000 (16 bit) |   785      |   788      |     791     |     794      |
| 16.7M (24 bit) |   786      |   789      |     792     |     795      |

=== Values for boot option "vga=0x3??" ===
| Color          |  640x480   |  800x600   |   1024x768  |   1280x1024  |
|   256  (8 bit) |   0x301      |   0x303      |   0x305      |   0x307      |
| 32000 (15 bit) |   0x310      |   0x313      |     0x316     |     0x319      |
| 65000 (16 bit) |   0x311      |   0x314      |     0x317     |     0x31A      |
| 16.7M (24 bit) |   0x312      |   0x315      |     0x318     |     0x31B      |

===== Generic kernel boot parameters =====
In addition to codes specific to TC, the linux kernel accepts several generic parameters.\\ 
A document that explains them is externally available in [[http://files.kroah.com/lkn/lkn_pdf/ch09.pdf|PDF]] or in
[[https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt|TXT]] format.

and 
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
which includes kernel-parameters.txt and some aditional detail about parameters and how they are processed !

===== Deprecated boot options =====
 tinycore checkfs and tinycore cryptohome=
  * No longer supported as of 2.4
 tinycore thm=
  * No longer supported as flwm is the new default window manager
 tinycore ssh
  * No longer supported as of 2.8, dropbear removed from base
tinycore settime
  * Replaced with nortc in 4.x