cache bootstring

Both 486 and Pentium processors have an internal on-chip cache and an optional external cache. boot can control the cache behavior with the cache bootstring. The following options are available:

/d

Disable flushing the cache. Booting will take less time if flushing is disabled. However, this may cause some machines to incorrectly size memory or fail to boot.

/e

Enable flushing the cache (default).

/n

Switch off the cache before loading the kernel. This may be necessary for some machines which have problems with cache coherence (this occurs when DMA does not notify the internal cache that memory has been written to directly).

/y

Switch on the cache after the kernel is loaded (default). Machine performance is enhanced if caching is enabled.