Re: Compaq Presario "reboot" problems

[Stefan Seyfried]

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

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
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