User may mistake to run vmcore-dmesg against an kdump format dumpfile, and fail to get kernel message.
Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <[email protected]> --- vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 index d9e3c62..dc06909 100644 --- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 +++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.8 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ vmcore-dmesg \- This is just a placeholder until real man page has been written .\" respectively. \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP extracts the dmesg from a vmcore and write it to standard out. \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP works against either -\fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a copy +\fB/proc/vmcore\fP in a crash dump capture context or a ELF format copy of \fB/proc/vmcore\fP that has been saved for later analysis. A single build of \fBvmcore-dmesg\fP should work against any linux vmcore written created on any architecture. -- 2.7.5 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
