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| author | Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com> | 2020-08-06 22:56:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com> | 2020-08-10 20:56:32 +0200 |
| commit | 6f77906ad3ce460a095e7586c71a1a3424237961 (patch) | |
| tree | 27faf67e0eadf4fcabfba8c00977d8e6d6ebbc54 /man/kernel-install.xml | |
| parent | bootctl: Remove dependency on machine-id. (diff) | |
| download | systemd-6f77906ad3ce460a095e7586c71a1a3424237961.tar.xz systemd-6f77906ad3ce460a095e7586c71a1a3424237961.zip | |
kernel-install: Add fallback to "Linux" if no machine-id is found
This allows kernel-install to be used by image builders such as mkosi
which don't have a machine-id available when they call kernel-install.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/kernel-install.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/kernel-install.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/kernel-install.xml b/man/kernel-install.xml index 273270f550..3de95f7088 100644 --- a/man/kernel-install.xml +++ b/man/kernel-install.xml @@ -211,7 +211,9 @@ <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> </term> <listitem> - <para>The content of the file specifies the machine identification <replaceable>MACHINE-ID</replaceable>.</para> + <para>The content of this file specifies the machine identification + <replaceable>MACHINE-ID</replaceable>. If it cannot read <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>, + kernel-install will use "Linux" as the machine ID instead.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |