From 306a075362a288683f6346185f97dd0e06df19da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chuck Lever Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:54:37 -0400 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems') 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=:::::: 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= + + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3