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diff --git a/system/mbootpack/slack-desc b/system/mbootpack/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dcda8515a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/mbootpack/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line +# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' +# on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must +# make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':'. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +mbootpack: mbootpack (Multiboot kernel and modules) +mbootpack: +mbootpack: This is a tool that takes a multiboot kernel and modules (e.g. a Xen +mbootpack: VMM, linux kernel and initrd), and packages them up as a single file +mbootpack: that looks like a bzImage linux kernel. The aim is to allow you to +mbootpack: boot multiboot kernels (in particular, Xen) using bootloaders that +mbootpack: don't support multiboot (i.e. pretty much anything except GRUB and +mbootpack: SYSLINUX). This is, as you might expect, pretty grim stuff, involving +mbootpack: lots of lovely 16-bit real-mode code. +mbootpack: +mbootpack: Homepage: http://www.tjd.phlegethon.org/software/ |