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Commit 64ccd0cf authored by Vivek Goyal's avatar Vivek Goyal Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] More documentation, minor cleanup in kdump.txt 



Added clarification on the root device format to be used for second kernel,
as well as specifying initrd if drivers are built as modules.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKishore Sampathkumar <kishore.sampathkumar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent f4f9eb0e

Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt

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	    hence have memory less than 4GB.

       iii) Specify "irqpoll" as command line parameter. This reduces driver

            initialization failures in second kernel due to shared interrupts.

        iv) <root-dev> needs to be specified in a format corresponding to

            the root device name in the output of mount command.

         v) If you have built the drivers required to mount root file

            system as modules in <second-kernel>, then, specify

            --initrd=<initrd-for-second-kernel>.



5) System reboots into the second kernel when a panic occurs. A module can be

   written to force the panic or "ALT-SysRq-c" can be used initiate a crash