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Desktop Boards
Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family Boards
Editing GRUB boot loader in RHEL* 5

If you need to pass kernel parameter in order to boot the system successfully:

  1. Press <space_bar> in the boot loader screen
  2. Press ‘e’ to edit
  3. Append the kernel parameter to the line beginning with kernel
  4. Press ‘b’ to boot

If you need to pass the kernel parameter every time the system boots:

  1. Open /boot/grub.conf file in a text editor
  2. Append the kernel parameter to the line beginning with kernel

Example of boot loader file (appended kernel parameter ‘pci=nommconf’ :


title Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (2.6.18-8.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet pci=nommconf
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.img



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Operating System:
Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 5.0

This applies to:
Intel® Desktop Board D201GLY
Intel® Desktop Board D945GCCR
Intel® Desktop Board D945GNT
Intel® Desktop Board D946GZIS
Intel® Desktop Board D955XBK
Intel® Desktop Board DG31PR
Intel® Desktop Board DG33BU
Intel® Desktop Board DG965RY
Intel® Desktop Board DG965SS

Solution ID: CS-028983
Date Created: 01-Apr-2008
Last Modified: 09-Apr-2008
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