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diff --git a/system/mbootpack/README b/system/mbootpack/README index d22e86a4c7e6d..d613e4069ec3b 100644 --- a/system/mbootpack/README +++ b/system/mbootpack/README @@ -1,8 +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. +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. |