From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 13:34:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.coastsight.com (ns1.coastsight.com [208.46.230.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97BDB37B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:34:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from maillist@coastsight.com) Received: from ns1.coastsight.com ([208.46.230.17]) by ns1.coastsight.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 14i16T-000HkW-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:34:13 -0800 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:34:13 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Duvall To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ISO boot blocks for cd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am wanting to make an emergency restore cd to put some /bin and /sbin files on it and a kernel so that I can do restores. Don't want to use floppies. The idea is that the cd would boot into a generic kernel, and ask for the tape to be inserted. It would then run amrestore and restore the last backup (or whatever backup that was put in the drive). I do the following command when burning the cd: mkisofs -R -J -T -b floppies/boot.flp -c floppies/boot.catalog -o /usr/cdrom.iso /usr/backup boot.flp and boot.catalog are the same ones that are on the install cd. When I boot from this cd, the files that I put in the /bin and /sbin directories aren't there, and it boots into the FreeBSD install. I am assuming that is because the boot.flp is what it's getting it from. Guess I need to make my own .flp image to burn to the cd, or does anybody have any idea on how I can get boot blocks so that the CD will boot single user mode to amrestore? Thanks. Sincerely, Rick Duvall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message