Thank you. I'll try this. James McDonald wrote:
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > >>I'm attempting to burn a bootable CD with XCDRoast (.98alpha10) and it's >>not working. I have an iso that I need to make into a bootable CD. >> >>I follow the docs at the xcdroast.org site and set up the iso under the >>Write tracks section - it's selected, the layout is accepted and the iso >>shows up as being selected. >> >>I then go to the Master tracks section and set it up for El Torito boot by >>pointing it to a 1.44 floppy image and telling it to make it bootable. >> >>However, when I boot of the CD it says 2.88MB image and then "failed to >>boot". I know I'm overlooking something obvious here. Any help is >>appreciated. >> >>Thanks. >> >> >> > This works for me and I have successfully used xcdroast to burn the > resulting iso to be used as a bootable cd > > 1. Create a directory in a convenient place > mkdir $HOME/cd_build > 2. Create a subdirectory to hold the boot image > mkdir cd_build/boot > 3. cd cd_build > 4. Copy the floppy image you want to boot from off the floppy > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot/boot.img bs=1k count=1440 > 5. Now add all the files you want burnt onto cd to the cd_build dir > 6. Run the command to create the iso image (don't forget the dot at > the end) > mkisofs -r -b boot/boot.img -c boot/boot.catalog -o bootcd.iso . > 7. Using your favourite burning software burn the bootcd.iso file to a > CD > > http://www.jamesmcdonald.id.au/faqs/mine/bootable_cd_linux.html -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
