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authorOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>2005-09-06 15:17:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-07 16:57:28 -0700
commitffdfc40976dda18d923cd001d44bf0ee55da1af4 (patch)
tree2503b81230c5b3ad0ff3926e1388267338fe24b8 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
parent2b579beec255d6589fabe51b60933d723630bcd4 (diff)
[PATCH] Add rdinit parameter to pick early userspace init
Since early userspace was added, there's no way to override which init to run from it. Some people tack on an extra cpio archive with a link from /init depending on what they want to run, but that's sometimes impractical. Changing the "init=" to also override the early userspace isn't feasible, since it is still used to indicate what init to run from disk when early userspace has completed doing whatever it's doing (i.e. load filesystem modules and drivers). Instead, introduce "rdinit=" and make it override the default "/init" if specified. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -1174,6 +1174,11 @@ running once the system is up.
New name for the ramdisk parameter.
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
+ rdinit= [KNL]
+ Format: <full_path>
+ Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
+ used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
+
reboot= [BUGS=IA-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c.