From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 23 13:13:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F400A16A407 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phatfish@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD2943D4C for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:13:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phatfish@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1310851wxd for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:13:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=i1jg/TzZx63anpPmNAUmplATx/rRw+mVTLynzCDa1AAaSaa8TGnc+mUm3/PrNWfQmR5KqTM3rQ/IiLgB4CHpZMV4ruhHQN7GYnuQ0Ij4Ns7/Mpe4uMfb+fbAR96Ck4Foy4tLWBAdouFYD70RfIOJiqzXzrYZ2JFRjoLXNHYBKzg= Received: by 10.90.28.12 with SMTP id b12mr964815agb; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.84.14 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <718eeb340609230613p37f7048fw123622f968ac8565@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:13:02 +0100 From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060923123834.c72119da.gary@pattersonsoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060923123834.c72119da.gary@pattersonsoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: gary@pattersonsoftware.com Subject: Re: Creating a bootable CD with CD Loader X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:13:06 -0000 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