Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:13:02 +0100 From: Chris <phatfish@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: gary@pattersonsoftware.com Subject: Re: Creating a bootable CD with CD Loader Message-ID: <718eeb340609230613p37f7048fw123622f968ac8565@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060923123834.c72119da.gary@pattersonsoftware.com> References: <20060923123834.c72119da.gary@pattersonsoftware.com>
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Hi Gary, thanks for the reply. How do you mean it doesn't boot fully? Creating a bootable cd is in the > handbook. My first test cd didn't boot because it couldn't find a root filesystem to mount i think. I sorted that by just borrowing my fstab from my running system and put in on the cd in /etc/fstab. # mkisofs -R -no-emul-boot -b boot/cdboot -o /tmp/bootable.iso /tmp/cdfiles > > Your tmp/cdfiles should contain a boot folder matching that on the > encrypted system. You'll only need the kernel and modules that you load > though and gzipping them will speed up the slow boot. You'll also need > to modify your loader.conf: Thanks for that, i was wondering where that cdboot binary was, it seems it's in the /boot directory. Dunno how i missed that :) Unfortunately my BIOS wont boot from a pendrive, so ill just run it all off a CD. But making the bootable CD ended up being harder than it should have. Chris
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