mkelfImage(8)

mkelfImage8

Make an elf network bootable image for linux

Usage

mkelfImage [--command-line=command line] [--kernel=path to vmlinux] [--ramdisk=path to ramdisk] [--output=file] [--ramdisk-base=<start addr>]

Overview

mkelfImage is a program that makes a elf boot image for linux kernel images. The image should work with any i386 multiboot compliant boot loader, an ELF bootloader that passes no options, a loader compliant with the linuxBIOS elf booting spec or with the linux kexec kernel patch. A key feature here is that nothing relies upon BIOS calls, but they are made when necessary. This is useful for systems running linuxbios.

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–11

Bugs

Not all kernel parameters can be passed with the multiboot image format. ip configuration is not automatically passed to a node. The ramdisk base is hard coded to 8MB by default. This man page need to be updated.

Author

Eric Biederman <[email protected]>

From mkelfimage 2.7-7+b1 in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.