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+This flavour is for booting baremetal nodes.
+It does some iSCSI setup and fetches a disk image
diff --git a/flavours/hwburnin/README.md b/flavours/hwburnin/README.md
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+This flavour is intended to be used to test hardware.
+It will exercise RAM and disks.
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+This flavour will examing the available hardware it boots on, and report it to an inventory service.