Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:07:14 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp? Message-ID: <4B732E12.5060408@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <4B732B7C.6000102@pldrouin.net> References: <4B7320DA.2080606@pldrouin.net> <4B732695.5080701@otenet.gr> <4B732795.70702@pldrouin.net> <4B732B7C.6000102@pldrouin.net>
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On 10/02/2010 11:56 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > I just realized that cdboot does not contain the kernel as boot.flp > used to, so I guess /boot/kernel has to be there... So it does not > seem to work with mkisofs. I did > > mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b ./cdboot -iso-level 3 -V FreeBSD_Custom > -o custom_FreeBSD_8_0_i386_cd.iso custom_FreeBSD_8_0_i386_cd > > and it throws: > mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image './cdboot' > > I tried with the absolute path for cdboot and it does not help either. > From the mkisofs man page it says that -no-emul-boot has to be added > if the size of the image file is not 1200, 1440, or 2880 kB. I noticed > that the cdboot file is only 1.2 kB, so I guess -no-emul-boot is > required... Do you have an idea what could be wrong? > > Thanks! > No need to specify an absolute path - the path you are using for the files is used. Here is another example: Assuming your files are in my_cd_files (and there is a boot/cdboot directory structure in there): mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b boot/cdboot -iso-level 3 -V FreeBSD_Custom -o custom-freebsd.iso my_cd_files or you could even do: cd my_cd_files mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b boot/cdboot -iso-level 3 -V FreeBSD_Custom -o ../custom-freebsd.iso . (note the dot at the end)
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