Minimized multiboot works!

multiboot/README.md

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+# Multiboot
+
+1.  [hello-world](hello-world/)
+1.  TODO not working
+    1.  [osdev](osdev/)
+
+## Introduction
+
+<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiboot_Specification>
+
+Standard created by GRUB for booting OSes.
+
+Multiboot files are an extension of ELF files with a special header.
+
+Advantages: GRUB does housekeeping magic for you:
+
+- you can store the OS as a regular file inside a filesystem
+- your program starts in 32-bit mode already, not 16 bit real mde
+
+Disadvantages:
+
+- more boilerplate
+
+GRUB leaves the application into a well defined starting state.
+
+It seems that Linux does not implement Multiboot natively, but GRUB supports it as an exception: <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17909429/booting-a-non-multiboot-kernel-with-grub2>
+
+Use `grub-mkrescue` to make a multiboot file into a bootable disk.