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From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, vda@ilport.com.ua
Subject: Re: Compaq Presario "reboot" problems
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:58:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <438218E6.4070604@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511211246390.14321@chaos.analogic.com>

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\b

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, Nürnberg \                    -- Leonard Cohen

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-21 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17 18:51 Compaq Presario "reboot" problems linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-17 18:39 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-17 23:26 ` Ondrej Zary
2005-11-18 11:48   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-11-19 13:39     ` Ondrej Zary
2005-11-18 11:51 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-11-18 12:48   ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-18 14:15   ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-19 14:44     ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-11-21 17:52       ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-21 18:58         ` Stefan Seyfried [this message]
2005-11-22 14:09           ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-22 14:19             ` Denis Vlasenko
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-18 15:14 Nick Warne
     [not found] <59X9C-2Va-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-11-19  5:05 ` Robert Hancock

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