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| author | Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> | 2010-09-17 10:54:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2010-09-17 10:54:37 -0400 |
| commit | 306a075362a288683f6346185f97dd0e06df19da (patch) | |
| tree | bcade14a2a0b634c5bf64eab87db8219d8d6981c /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 8d2321037896aa4868a67f45b2d6ed52b579a48a (diff) | |
NFS: Allow NFSROOT debugging messages to be enabled dynamically
As a convenience, introduce a kernel command line option to enable
NFSROOT debugging messages.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt index f2430a7974e1..90c71c6f0d00 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt @@ -159,6 +159,28 @@ ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf> Default: any +nfsrootdebug + + This parameter enables debugging messages to appear in the kernel + log at boot time so that administrators can verify that the correct + NFS mount options, server address, and root path are passed to the + NFS client. + + +rdinit=<executable file> + + To specify which file contains the program that starts system + initialization, administrators can use this command line parameter. + The default value of this parameter is "/init". If the specified + file exists and the kernel can execute it, root filesystem related + kernel command line parameters, including `nfsroot=', are ignored. + + A description of the process of mounting the root file system can be + found in: + + Documentation/early-userspace/README + + 3.) Boot Loader |