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diff --git a/system/maintboot/README b/system/maintboot/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c7a6277877 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/maintboot/README @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# maintboot + +maintboot runs commands outside of the current OS, +with exclusive access to the system and hardware. + +This can be useful to run maintenance tasks, +like repartitioning, in a controlled environment. + +Maintboot builds an appliance on the fly from a list +of packages (using supermin). +It then loads the appliance with kexec, bypassing +the bios, and runs the maintenance script in that +new context. |