Kernel Arguments

How do the kernel arguments work? And how it affects the kernel?

Kernel Arguments are command-line parameters to the simulator that changes the behavior of the kernel according to the available arguments listed below:

• attach: Attaches a Visual Studio debugger to the current instance of the kernel (Windows only)

• quiet: Starts the kernel quietly

• maintenance: Starts the kernel in maintenance mode which behaves like safe mode but with additional features turned off

• safe: Starts the kernel in safe mode which disables all mods

• testInteractive: Opens the interactive test facade selection

• debug: Enables debug mode

• terminaldebug: Enables terminal debug mode

• reset: Wipes all settings and resets the kernel to factory settings

• bypasssizedetection: Bypasses the 80x24 console size detection

• noaltbuffer: Prevents the kernel from using the alternative buffer

• noprebootsplash: Prevents the kernel from displaying the pre-boot splash

• lang <lang>: Selects a pre-boot environment language

• verbosepreboot: Shows extra pre-boot messages

Each argument is provided the ArgumentInfo class that defines the argument and its properties.

It's been theorized that we can actually define the argument parameters using CommandArgumentInfo. As of Beta 1, there is one kernel argument that actually uses parameters, but you have to surround said argument with the double quotation marks "".

The arguments are parsed each time the kernel starts up or gets rebooted. If there are any switches or argument parameters, they'll get parsed using the ProvidedArgumentsInfo class.

To learn more about ProvidedArgumentsInfo, click on the below link:

Command Parsing