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| author | Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> | 2023-09-20 17:29:27 +0530 |
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| committer | Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> | 2023-10-04 13:54:12 +0200 |
| commit | bd0200c47c45dd420244b39ddabcecdab1fb9a8e (patch) | |
| tree | 6fd7129d5a5d01e37717f795be07584b0e4a0c8c | |
| parent | 2495ccfc52069ecec46031587c94b03ae66ed5d2 (diff) | |
| download | kexec-tools-bd0200c47c45dd420244b39ddabcecdab1fb9a8e.tar.gz | |
kexec: update manpage with explicit mention of clean kexec
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@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | kexec/kexec.8 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kexec/kexec.8 b/kexec/kexec.8 index 3a344c51..179dcf22 100644 --- a/kexec/kexec.8 +++ b/kexec/kexec.8 @@ -95,8 +95,15 @@ 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 the user-space supports kexec-based +rebooting, it can be booted to, with a clean shutdown, using the command: + +.RS +.BR reboot +.RE +.PP +Alternatively, it can also be booted to, without calling shutdown(8), with +the command: .RS .BR kexec \ \-e |