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diff --git a/system/mbootpack/README b/system/mbootpack/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d613e4069e --- /dev/null +++ b/system/mbootpack/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +mbootpack (Multiboot kernel and modules) + +This is a tool that takes a multiboot kernel and modules (e.g. a Xen +VMM, linux kernel and initrd), and packages them up as a single file +that looks like a bzImage linux kernel. The aim is to allow you to +boot multiboot kernels (in particular, Xen) using bootloaders that +don't support multiboot (i.e. pretty much anything except GRUB and +SYSLINUX). This is, as you might expect, pretty grim stuff, involving +lots of lovely 16-bit real-mode code. |