I’m getting conflicting messages on how to do this. Is it by
A. adding nmi_watchdog=0 to kernel parameters
or by
B. adding nowatchdog to the kernel parameters and blacklist iTCO_wdt in a conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/
Do A and B have the same result or is B just the watchdog timer, whatever the difference is?
I’m trying to solve some shutdown/startup problems and follwing this thread I used journalctl -p2 -b -2 to list critical boot errors. The result pointed me to this thread: kernel: watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
As I’m more or less a noob, I’d like to ask how I do these steps exactly: