diff --git a/packages/base/all/vendor-config-onl/src/bin/onlkernel b/packages/base/all/vendor-config-onl/src/bin/onlkernel
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..051a1729
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/base/all/vendor-config-onl/src/bin/onlkernel
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+############################################################
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+    echo "usage: $0 <kernel url>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+dir=`mktemp -d`
+(cd $dir && wget $1)
+onlfs rw boot mv $dir/* /mnt/onl/boot
+rmdir $dir