When and Why do we need to use "reboot=" parameter?
Issue
1 When do we need to use "reboot=" parameter?
2 Is man information of "reboot=" correct?
According to man bootparam
reboot=[warm|cold][,[bios|hard]]'
(Only when CONFIG_BUGi386 is defined.) Since 2.0.22 a reboot is
by default a cold reboot. One asks for the old default with
'reboot=warm'. (A cold reboot may be required to reset certain
hardware, but might destroy not yet written data in a disk
cache. A warm reboot may be faster.) By default a reboot is
hard, by asking the keyboard controller to pulse the reset line
low, but there is at least one type of motherboard where that
doesn't work. The option 'reboot=bios' will instead jump
through the BIOS.
Do We need to concern about "(Only when CONFIG_BUGi386 is defined.)" ?
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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