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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

by Greg Kroah-Hartman
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
8h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

elfcorehdr — Start of the kernel core image ELF header.

Synopsis

elfcorhdr= n

The kernel, like every Linux executable, is stored in ELF format. This option specifies the physical address where the kernel core image's ELF header starts. This is used by kexec to find the kernel when booting the secondary kernel image.

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