The boot.catalog is a file that has your boot sector built into it. It is
normally used when you write the ISO file. If you don't have the boot file
then you won't be able to boot the CD. I am not sure if your kernel will do
the job. Normally it's a pointer.
At 10:12 AM 06/13/2000 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi Tom,
>
> > 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.
>
>ok with this. during the mastering process (using xcdroast), it complains
>about not finding a boot.catalog. i have set the bootable image with not
>problem, but this boot.catalog has me stumped. is it a directory in the
>ISO9660+RockRidge filesystem? what does it have in it?
>
>thanks for all your help.
>
>paul jensen
Al Smith
Systems Engineer
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