Somewhere between 3.2 and 3.3 this got dropped (as I noticed on a [rarely used] box that didn't crash on me since then). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/xen/arch/x86/shutdown.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/shutdown.c @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static long no_idt[2]; static int reboot_mode; /* - * reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | [, [w]arm | [c]old] + * reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | n[o] [, [w]arm | [c]old] * warm Don't set the cold reboot flag * cold Set the cold reboot flag * bios Reboot by jumping through the BIOS (only for X86_32) @@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ static void __init set_reboot_type(char { switch ( *str ) { + case 'n': /* no reboot */ + opt_noreboot = 1; + break; case 'w': /* "warm" reboot (no memory testing etc) */ reboot_mode = 0x1234; break;