From: Horms Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:52:18 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] kexec: fix references to init in documentation for kexec X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~274^2~182 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=473e66fd24a230e03f6f164913bedb81c0ba052a;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] kexec: fix references to init in documentation for kexec I've noticed that the boot options are not correct for in the documentation for kdump. The "init" keyword is not necessary, and causes a kernel panic when booting with an initrd on Fedora 5. [horms@verge.net.au: put original comment with the latest version of the patch] Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzeelter Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index 0733068183..79775a4130 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -311,10 +311,10 @@ Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while 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 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