Document the isoboot option, as designed for GRUB2 usage 3 years ago.

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 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Id$
  
+  15 July 2012; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> doc/genkernel.8.txt,
+  Document the isoboot option, as designed for GRUB2 usage 3 years ago.
+
  09 Jul 2012; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> genkernel:
  Bump version to 3.4.38

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@ -552,7 +552,8 @@ which the ramdisk scripts would recognize.
    TO BE DOCUMENTED

 *isoboot*=<...>::
-    TO BE DOCUMENTED
+    Loop-mount an ISO file from the boot device to get the filesystem image.
+    Useful with chain-loading environments and USB keys.


 NETBOOTING