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diff --git a/doc/examples/kernel-cmdline.txt b/doc/examples/kernel-cmdline.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f043baef --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/examples/kernel-cmdline.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +cloud-config can be provided via the kernel command line. +configuration that comes from the kernel command line has higher priority +than configuration in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg + +The format is: + cc: <yaml content here> [end_cc] + +cloud-config will consider any content after 'cc:' to be cloud-config +data. If an 'end_cc' string is present, then it will stop reading there. +otherwise it considers everthing after 'cc:' to be cloud-config content. + +In order to allow carriage returns, you must enter '\\n', literally, +on the command line two backslashes followed by a letter 'n'. + +Here are some examples: + root=/dev/sda1 cc: ssh_import_id: [smoser, kirkland]\\n + root=LABEL=uec-rootfs cc: ssh_import_id: [smoser, bob]\\nruncmd: [ [ ls, -l ], echo hi ] end_cc + cc:ssh_import_id: [smoser] end_cc cc:runcmd: [ [ ls, -l ] ] end_cc root=/dev/sda1 |