kboot-utils provides helper tools to automatically generate a kboot.conf file
from entries in /boot.

kboot.conf is used for instance by the petitboot bootloader, which is used on
the Sony PlayStation 3 in OtherOS mode; petitboot reads the file from the root
filesystem in order to list kernels to boot.

A description of the kboot.conf file format can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-linux-docs/ps3-linux-docs-latest/mini-boot-conf.txt
mirrored at:
http://ring.nict.go.jp/pub/linux/kernel.org/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-linux-docs/ps3-linux-docs-latest/mini-boot-conf.txt