Commit 473e66fd authored by Horms's avatar Horms Committed by Linus Torvalds

[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: default avatarJudith Lebzeelter <judith@osdl.org>
Acked-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent be6b0267
......@@ -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 <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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