On 28/08/23 1:18 pm, Simon Horman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:46:14AM +0530, Hari Bathini wrote:
Any comments on this, please..
Hi Hari,
Sorry, I had missed this.
No worries. Thanks for the response.
On 07/07/23 10:59 am, Hari Bathini wrote:
While the manpage does mention about kexec boot with a clean shutdown,
it is not explicit about it. Make it explicit.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kexec/kexec.8 | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kexec/kexec.8 b/kexec/kexec.8
index 3a344c5..87e4ab5 100644
--- a/kexec/kexec.8
+++ b/kexec/kexec.8
@@ -95,8 +95,16 @@ then you would use the following command to load the kernel:
.RB "\-\-append=" "root=/dev/hda1" "\ \-\-initrd=" /boot/initrd
.RE
.PP
-After this kernel is loaded, it can be booted to at any time using the
-command:
+After this kernel is loaded, assuming your Linux distribution supports
+kexec-based rebooting, it can be booted to, with a clean shutdown, using
+the command:
Perhaps user-space would be better than "your Linux distribution".
But perhaps that is just kernel developer speak and makes less
sense to others.
No strong inclination to putting it either way. Would leave it to you :)
- Hari
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