At boot prompt enter mc followed by one or more space separated options:

 {cron|syslog}              Start various daemons at boot
 host=xxxx                  Set hostname to xxxx
 secure                     Set password
 protect                    Password encrypted backup
 noautologin                Skip automatic login
 tz=GMT+8                   Timezone tz=PST+8PDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2
 user=abc                   Specify alternate user
 desktop=yyy                Specify alternate window manager
 laptop                     Force load laptop related modules
 noembed                    Unpack initramfs to tmpfs 
 nozswap                    Skip compressed swap in ram
 xvesa=800x600x32           Set Xvesa default screen resolution
 mydata=yyy                 Specify alternate backup file name
 blacklist=ssb              Blacklist a single module
 multivt                    Allows for multiple virtual terminals