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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/