On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:25:04PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Judith Lebzelter wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > 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. > > > > Thanks; > > Judith Lebzelter > > > > --- > > Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > > > > > Index: linux/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > > =================================================================== > > --- linux.orig/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > > +++ linux/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > > @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ the following command: > > > > kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel> \ > > --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> --args-linux \ > > - --append="root=<root-dev> init 1 irqpoll" > > + --append="root=<root-dev> 1 irqpoll" > > > > > > Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel: > > @@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ 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". > > i'm not sure you want to totally remove those first two lines, they > appear to talk about getting to run level 1 *from a running system*.
I think that it is refering to a kernel command line parameter, not a shell command executed on a running system, so I think the patch is correct in that respect. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
