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[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: Judith Lebzeelter <judith@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Horms 18 years ago
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Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt

@@ -311,10 +311,10 @@ Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while
 loading dump-capture kernel.
 loading dump-capture kernel.
 
 
 For i386, x86_64 and ia64:
 For i386, x86_64 and ia64:
-	"init 1 irqpoll maxcpus=1"
+	"1 irqpoll maxcpus=1"
 
 
 For ppc64:
 For ppc64:
-	"init 1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib"
+	"1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib"
 
 
 
 
 Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
 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
 * You must specify <root-dev> in the format corresponding to the root
   device name in the output of mount command.
   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
 * 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
   dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture