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dracut.usage.asc: Remove distro specific help from manpage 

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
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@ -246,23 +246,6 @@ specified multiple times.
If your root partition is on a network drive, you have to have the network
dracut modules installed to create a network aware initramfs image.

On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora system, this means, you have to install
the _dracut-network_ rpm package:


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# yum install dracut-network
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The resulting initramfs image can be served by a boot manager residing on your
local hard drive or it can be served by a PXE/TFTP server.

How to setup your PXE/TFTP server can be found in the
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/[Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Storage Administration Guide]
or http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/[Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Storage Administration Guide].

If you specify ip=dhcp on the kernel command line, then dracut asks a dhcp
server about the ip adress for the machine. The dhcp server can also serve an
additional root-path, which will set the root device for dracut. With this
@ -302,7 +285,7 @@ This will reduce the size of the initramfs image significantly.
If the boot process does not succeed, you have several options to debug the
situation. Some of the basic operations are covered here. For more information
you should also visit:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Dracut_problems
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html


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