Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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<refsect1>
<title>Kernel Command Line</title>
- <para>When run as system instance systemd parses a few kernel command line arguments:</para>
+ <para>When run as system instance systemd parses a
+ number of kernel command line
+ arguments<footnote><para>If run inside a Linux
+ container these arguments may be passed as command
+ line arguments to systemd itself, next to any of the
+ command line options listed in the Options section
+ above. If run outside of Linux containers, these
+ arguments are parsed from
+ <filename>/proc/cmdline</filename>
+ instead.</para></footnote>:</para>
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