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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-01-12 23:30:20 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-01-12 23:30:20 +0100
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tree7441efface736722b60d637133d0e7b6fc80541d /man/machine-id.xml
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parentee48dbd55f544d9ee4a17497b5757be7e854c869 (diff)
Merge pull request #490 from pyssling/master
Add machine-id setting
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at install time. Use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
to initialize it on mounted (but not booted) system images.</para>
+
+ <para>The machine-id may also be set, for example when network
+ booting, by setting the <varname>systemd.machine_id=</varname>
+ kernel command line parameter or passing the option
+ <option>--machine-id=</option> to systemd. A machine-id may not
+ be set to all zeros.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>