diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index b8d8c8f..2d11cdb 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ project. ### Caveats -For security reasons (avoid risk to circumvent ASLR), recent kernels +For security reasons (avoid risk to circumvent [ASLR][3]), recent kernels have disabled the `vsyscall` mapping. Unfortunately older distributions don't run and hence can't be bootstrapped without it. @@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ distributions in a chroot (as xen-tools does), you need to add `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT` in `/etc/default/grub`, then running `update-grub` afterwards and finally reboot. +[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization + "Address Space Layout Randomization" + Installation ------------