Re: Compaq Presario "reboot" problems

Stefan Seyfried
2005-11-21T18:58:48Z

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.

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