Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:33:55 +0100 | From | WANG Cong <> | Subject | [Patch] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: fix some words |
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This is a trivial patch that only fixes mistakes in Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
--- diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index b8e52c0..0ffa90c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -108,15 +108,15 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump. 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible - only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As - of today i386 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel. + only for the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As + of today i386 and ia64 architectures support a relocatable kernel. Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But at the same time one might want to build a custom dump capture kernel suitable to his needs. -Following are the configuration setting required for system and +Following are the configuration settings required for system and dump-capture kernels for enabling kdump support. System kernel config options @@ -299,14 +299,14 @@ For ia64: - Use vmlinux or vmlinuz.gz -If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command +If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use the following command to load dump-capture kernel. kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-vmlinux-image> \ --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> --args-linux \ --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>" -If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use following command +If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use the following command to load dump-capture kernel. kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-bzImage> \ @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ to load dump-capture kernel. Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64. It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now -it should be omitted +it should be omitted. Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while loading dump-capture kernel. @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel: * 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't have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture kernel or specify maxcpus=1 option while loading dump-capture kernel.
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