From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 19 7: 1: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.navitaire.com (mail.navitaire.com [205.182.62.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD3237B407 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:01:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exchange.Navitaire.com (exch.navitaire.com [149.122.4.14]) by mail.navitaire.com (Switch-2.1.4/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id g5JE0pr22329; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:00:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: by exchange.Navitaire.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:59:01 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Henning, Brian" To: "'Jean-Marc Zucconi'" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: dd boot floppy to cd image Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:59:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello- I performed the following command on my grub boot floopy: dd bs=18k if=/dev/fd0.1440 of=floppy.image the file 'floppy.image' was created. when i try to run: mkisofs -b floppy.image -c floppy.catalog -o grub.iso . i get the error message can't find boot image. I was tried read example on the web but I just can't get it to work. Any suggestions? thanks, brian -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Marc Zucconi [mailto:jmz@dalai-zebu.org] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:56 AM To: Henning, Brian Subject: Re: dd boot floppy to cd image >>>>> Henning, Brian writes: > Hello- > I have a grub boot floopy that has no file system. It just boots into grub. > I want to be able to put this floppy boot section onto a cd image to burn to > a cd. I don't really care if the cd image has a file system or not. I just > want it to boot grub. I am pretty sure I need to use dd to pull write the cd > image. Can anyone give me a functional overview of what i need to do to make > this work? 1) make an exact image of your boot floppy in a file: dd bs=18k if=/dev/fd0.1440 of=floppy.image 2) usr this file whith the -b option of mkisofs when creating your CDROM image Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message