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Index: lilo-22.3.4/manPages/lilo.conf.5
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--- lilo-22.3.4.orig/manPages/lilo.conf.5
+++ lilo-22.3.4/manPages/lilo.conf.5
@@ -622,6 +622,46 @@ If this variable is omitted, the VGA mod
 kernel image is used. (And that is set at compile time using the
 SVGA_MODE variable in the kernel Makefile, and can later be changed with
 the rdev(8) program.)
+.TP
+.BI "wildcard=" <pathname>
+Treat this section as a wildcard entry: The
+.IR wildcard ", " image ", " initrd ", and " label
+lines of this section each contain an asterisk (*) in their value. A
+filename match is performed on the
+.IR pathname " of the " wildcard
+entry. For each match, the configuration section is duplicated. The part
+of the filename which matches the asterisk in the
+.I wildcard
+entry replaces the asterisks in the
+.IR image ", " initrd ", and " label
+entries. For example, with the files vmlinuz-2.6.5-1 and vmlinuz-2.6.8-8
+below /boot, the following wildcard entry:
+.sp
+.nf
+     image=/boot/vmlinuz-*
+          wildcard=/boot/vmlinuz-*
+          label=Linux-*
+          root=/dev/hdb2
+          initrd=boot/initrd-*
+          vga=ask
+.fi
+.sp
+would expand as follows:
+.sp
+.nf
+     image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1
+          wildcard=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1
+          label=Linux-2.6.5-1
+          root=/dev/hdb2
+          initrd=boot/initrd-2.6.5-1
+          vga=ask
+     image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-8
+          wildcard=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-8
+          label=Linux-2.6.8-8
+          root=/dev/hdb2
+          initrd=boot/initrd-2.6.8-8
+          vga=ask
+.fi
 
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