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diff --git a/doc/mboot.txt b/doc/mboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5b4c1f3d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/mboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ + +mboot.c32 +--------- + +mboot.c32 is a 32-bit comboot module that allows SYSLINUX and its +variants to load and boot kernels that use the Multiboot standard +(e.g. the Xen virtual machine monitor, and the Fiasco and GNU Mach +microkernels). + +To load a multiboot kernel and modules in SYSLINUX, put mboot.c32 (from +com32/modules) in the boot directory, and load it as the "kernel" in the +configuration file. The command-line to pass to mboot.c32 is the kernel +command-line, followed by all the module command lines, separated with +'---'. For example, to load a Xen VMM, xenlinux and an initrd: + +DEFAULT mboot.c32 xen.gz dom0_mem=15000 nosmp noacpi --- linux.gz console=tty0 root=/dev/hda1 --- initrd.img + +or, as a choice in a menu: + +LABEL Xen + KERNEL mboot.c32 + APPEND xen.gz dom0_mem=15000 nosmp noacpi --- linux.gz console=tty0 root=/dev/hda1 --- initrd.img + +mboot.c32 requires version 2.12 or later of SYSLINUX. + +Tim Deegan, May 2005 |