Re: [ PATCH ] fix to documentation for kexec

From: Judith Lebzelter
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 14:02:24 EST


>
> I did notice that my patch is out of date for the latest kernel,
> however. I can send an up to date one.
>
This applies to 2.6.20-rc7

Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzeelter <judith@xxxxxxxx>
---

Stop recommending incorrect/superfluous "init" boot parameter.

Index: linux-2.6.20-rc7/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-rc7.orig/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc7/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -311,10 +311,10 @@ Following are the arch specific command
loading dump-capture kernel.

For i386, x86_64 and ia64:
- "init 1 irqpoll maxcpus=1"
+ "1 irqpoll maxcpus=1"

For ppc64:
- "init 1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib"
+ "1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib"


Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
@@ -332,8 +332,8 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel
* You must specify <root-dev> in the format corresponding to the root
device name in the output of mount command.

-* "init 1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user mode without
- networking. If you want networking, use "init 3."
+* Boot parameter "1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user
+ mode without networking. If you want networking, use "3".

* We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the
dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture
-
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