Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:36:03 +0800 From: Greg Laslett <g_laslett@motherwell.com.au> To: Anthony.Wyatt@csiro.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Creating a CD to use cdboot instead of boot0 etc Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020529113001.00a8e5d0@exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4ABEF4D887D40745B8D6804C2FFA939F1A771E@hermes.la.csiro.au>
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Thanks Anthony. The -no-emul-boot for mkisofs sorted it. I was getting confused with hard disk emulation which I expected to behave similar to 2.88 with disk container files etc etc. Regards, Greg Laslett. At 09:22 5/28/02 +1000, Anthony.Wyatt@csiro.au wrote: >Hi Greg, > > > From: Greg Laslett [mailto:g_laslett@motherwell.com.au] > > Subject: Creating a CD to use cdboot instead of boot0 etc > > > > Can anybody give me a working set of fdisk + disklabel + > > mkisofs type commands to create a bootable cd using the new > > cdboot bootstrap. > > Put all your files in a directory, I call mine ROOT. Make sure > the /boot/cdboot file is in your root somewhere, I keep it in ROOT/boot > and then try the following: > >mkisofs -l -R -L -o my.iso -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot ROOT > > You will have to make sure you have everything you need on that > CD to boot, and a writable /dev/partition etc. See > http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html for other hints. > >Hope this helps, >Anthony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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