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[PATCH] kexec: fix references to init in documentation for kexec
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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.

[[email protected]: put original comment with the latest version of the patch]
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzeelter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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horms authored and Linus Torvalds committed Feb 12, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -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:
Expand All @@ -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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