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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 <judith@osdl.org>
> ---
>
>
> 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*.

rday

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