Wrapper to the G4L project http://g4l.sf.net/ Options are passed by kernel's options in grub or lilo or PXE eg.: root (hd0,0) kernel /g4l/bzImage ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 g4l=action=backup,to=local,brpart=sda3,tspart=sda4,filename=windows,exclude=pagefile.sys initrd /g4l/ramdisk.gz Not tested on Windows with boot.ini yet.