[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 196/727] Described the Expert Settings tab.

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 12:40:49 UTC 2010


commit c934fb3f5488a10dbc1fcc6d84deb27cee75f6be
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 29 15:43:55 2010 +0200

    Described the Expert Settings tab.

 en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml b/en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml
index 1be2713..495a909 100644
--- a/en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_kdump_Crash_Recovery_Service.xml
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@
       </section>
       <section id="s2-kdump-configuration-gui-expert">
         <title>The <guilabel>Expert Settings</guilabel> Tab</title>
+        <para>
+          The <guilabel>Expert Settings</guilabel> tab enables you to choose which kernel and initial RAM disk to use, as well as to customize the options that are passed to the kernel and the core collector program.
+        </para>
         <figure id="fig-kdump-kernel_dump_configuration-expert_settings">
           <title><guilabel>Expert Settings</guilabel></title>
           <mediaobject>
@@ -116,6 +119,21 @@
             </textobject>
           </mediaobject>
         </figure>
+        <para>
+          To use a different initial RAM disk, select the <guilabel>Custom initrd</guilabel> radio button, and choose the desired RAM disk from the pulldown list next to it.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          To capture a different kernel, select the <guilabel>Custom kernel</guilabel> radio button, and choose the desired kernel image from the pulldown list on the right.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          To adjust the list of options that are passed to the kernel at boot time, edit the content of the <guilabel>Edited</guilabel> text field. Note that you can always revert your changes by clicking the <guibutton>Refresh</guibutton> button.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          To choose what steps should be taken when the kernel crash is captured, select the appropriate option from the <guilabel>Default action</guilabel> pulldown list. Available options are <guimenuitem>mount rootfs and run /sbin/init</guimenuitem> (the default action), <guimenuitem>reboot</guimenuitem> (to reboot the system), <guimenuitem>shell</guimenuitem> (to present a user with an interactive shell prompt), <guimenuitem>halt</guimenuitem> (to halt the system), and <guimenuitem>poweroff</guimenuitem> (to power the system off).
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          To customize the options that are passed to the <command>makedumpfile</command> core collector, edit the <guilabel>Core collector</guilabel> text field.
+        </para>
       </section>
       <section id="s2-kdump-configuration-gui-enable">
         <title>Enabling the Service</title>


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