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mbootpack: mbootpack (Multiboot kernel and modules)
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mbootpack:
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mbootpack: This is a tool that takes a multiboot kernel and modules (e.g. a Xen
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mbootpack: VMM, linux kernel and initrd), and packages them up as a single file
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mbootpack: that looks like a bzImage linux kernel. The aim is to allow you to
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mbootpack: boot multiboot kernels (in particular, Xen) using bootloaders that
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mbootpack: don't support multiboot (i.e. pretty much anything except GRUB and
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mbootpack: SYSLINUX). This is, as you might expect, pretty grim stuff, involving
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mbootpack: lots of lovely 16-bit real-mode code.
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mbootpack:
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mbootpack: Homepage: http://www.tjd.phlegethon.org/software/
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