> now i am trying to make a bootable cd with a linux file system on it.
> putting the ext2 file system on the cd was no problem, but making it boot
> is not easy. according to the CD-Writing howto, one needs to put a 1.44mb
> bootable image in a iso9660 format on the the cd. i guess i could put a
> small iso9660 partition on the cd with the rest allocated to a ext2 file
> system.
No. NOT a bootable image in iso9660 format. A bootable image in either a
floppy format or a hard drive format. The iso9660 is additional. First
is the bootable stuff, then the iso9660 stuff. Also, don't use ext2, use
iso9660+rockridge for the main part. Also, there are no partitions on a
CD. You are just talking about 2 things, first the ElTorito boot area,
which in the case of tomsrtbt is a 2.88M floppy image, mapped by the BIOS
to A: during boot, and second, the ISO9660+RockRidge filesystem
area. When you mount the CD, by the way, you don't even see that the boot
stuff exists.
-Tom
