Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932452AbVKUS6s (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:58:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932451AbVKUS6s (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:58:48 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:56045 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932452AbVKUS6s (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:58:48 -0500 Message-ID: <438218E6.4070604@suse.de> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:58:46 +0100 From: Stefan Seyfried User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050715 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Cc: Linux kernel , vda@ilport.com.ua Subject: Re: Compaq Presario "reboot" problems References: <200511181351.41159.vda@ilport.com.ua> <200511191644.03330.vda@ilport.com.ua> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1064 Lines: 25 linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > I don't know how to make `reboot` or `init 0` take the required > parameters! I don't know how to get from user-mode into the kernel > code with any such parameters. I looked through `proc` and couldn't > find anything for such parameters either: > > Script started on Mon 21 Nov 2005 12:42:11 PM EST > [root@chaos root]# reboot=cb > [root@chaos root]# strace reboot=cb > strace: reboot=cb: command not found > [root@chaos root]# strace reboot -cb Pass it to the kernel at the bootloader prompt. Like the "vga=6" and "root=/foo/bar" you have somewhere in there. -- Stefan Seyfried \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices \ wanted to be paid for what I write." SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, N?rnberg \ -- Leonard Cohen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/