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What is meant by multiboot header?


What is meant by multiboot header ? While going through the tutorials on how to make an OS. I came across this term.


Solution

  • Multiboot is about loading various kernels using a single boot loader. The Multiboot Header is a data structure in the kernel image that provides information to a Multiboot-compliant boot loader (GRUB for instance) about how and where to load the image, and which Multiboot features the image expects.