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Subject[PATCH] docs: admin-guide: Clarify sentences
Spelling mistakes corrected for easy reading.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Souza <cristianmsbr@gmail.com>
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Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst
index e89d97f31eaf..68f2f6cf456b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst
@@ -1,34 +1,34 @@
-Explaining the dreaded "No init found." boot hang message
-=========================================================
+Explaining the dreaded "No working init found." boot hang message
+=================================================================

-OK, so you've got this pretty unintuitive message (currently located
-in init/main.c) and are wondering what the H*** went wrong.
+OK, so you have got this pretty unintuitive message (currently located
+in init/main.c) and are wondering what went wrong.
Some high-level reasons for failure (listed roughly in order of execution)
to load the init binary are:

A) Unable to mount root FS
B) init binary doesn't exist on rootfs
-C) broken console device
-D) binary exists but dependencies not available
-E) binary cannot be loaded
+C) Broken console device
+D) Binary exists but dependencies not available
+E) Binary cannot be loaded

Detailed explanations:

A) Set "debug" kernel parameter (in bootloader config file or CONFIG_CMDLINE)
to get more detailed kernel messages.
-B) make sure you have the correct root FS type
+B) Make sure you have the correct root FS type
(and ``root=`` kernel parameter points to the correct partition),
required drivers such as storage hardware (such as SCSI or USB!)
- and filesystem (ext3, jffs2 etc.) are builtin (alternatively as modules,
+ and filesystem (ext3, jffs2, etc.) are builtin (alternatively as modules,
to be pre-loaded by an initrd)
C) Possibly a conflict in ``console= setup`` --> initial console unavailable.
E.g. some serial consoles are unreliable due to serial IRQ issues (e.g.
missing interrupt-based configuration).
Try using a different ``console= device`` or e.g. ``netconsole=``.
-D) e.g. required library dependencies of the init binary such as
+D) E.g. required library dependencies of the init binary such as
``/lib/ld-linux.so.2`` missing or broken. Use
``readelf -d <INIT>|grep NEEDED`` to find out which libraries are required.
-E) make sure the binary's architecture matches your hardware.
+E) Make sure the binary's architecture matches your hardware.
E.g. i386 vs. x86_64 mismatch, or trying to load x86 on ARM hardware.
In case you tried loading a non-binary file here (shell script?),
you should make sure that the script specifies an interpreter in its shebang
@@ -40,13 +40,13 @@ E) make sure the binary's architecture matches your hardware.

Please extend this explanation whenever you find new failure causes
(after all loading the init binary is a CRITICAL and hard transition step
-which needs to be made as painless as possible), then submit patch to LKML.
+which needs to be made as painless as possible), then submit a patch to LKML.
Further TODOs:

- Implement the various ``run_init_process()`` invocations via a struct array
which can then store the ``kernel_execve()`` result value and on failure
log it all by iterating over **all** results (very important usability fix).
-- try to make the implementation itself more helpful in general,
+- Try to make the implementation itself more helpful in general,
e.g. by providing additional error messages at affected places.

Andreas Mohr <andi at lisas period de>
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