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authorHarald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>2013-02-25 19:29:16 +0100
committerHarald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>2013-02-25 19:29:16 +0100
commit2d0614d3d310e1fa0246bb6fcf90f7014acaf209 (patch)
treea77aa128af9fc038b8a854912319d74221e13c3b /man
parent81516adcb71a47837544340f72eb8ee810274119 (diff)
kernel-install(8): add documentation about the configuration files used
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diff --git a/man/kernel-install.xml b/man/kernel-install.xml
index 06939fa090..93dc0ae4fd 100644
--- a/man/kernel-install.xml
+++ b/man/kernel-install.xml
@@ -125,12 +125,40 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<para>Drop-in files, which are executed by kernel-install.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <filename>/etc/kernel/cmdline</filename>
+ <filename>/proc/cmdline</filename>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The contents of the file <filename>/etc/kernel/cmdline</filename> specifies the kernel command line to use.
+ If that file does not exist, <filename>/proc/cmdline</filename> is used.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The contents of the file specifies the machine identifaction &lt;MACHINE-ID>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <filename>/etc/os-release</filename>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The contents of the file specifies the the operating system id &lt;OS-ID>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>os-release</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec">Boot loader specification</ulink>
</para>
</refsect1>