From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 2:51:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.nonel.pu.ru (nonel.chem.spbu.ru [195.19.244.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84ADE37B419 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 02:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from PC5 (r2123pc5.nonel.pu.ru [195.19.244.102]) by ns.nonel.pu.ru (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA98000 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:52:07 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yakovlev@nonel.pu.ru) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:53:34 +0300 From: "Dmitry S. Yakovlev" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.36) S/N F29DEE5D / Educational Reply-To: "Dmitry S. Yakovlev" Organization: St.Petersburg State University X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <3578.020329@nonel.pu.ru> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: creating bootable CD problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a problem with creating a bootable CD (FreBSD 4.3 STABLE) As described in handbook, I do following: # mkisofs -R -U -b boot/cdboot >image.iso and get error from mkisofs: cdboot bad size After that I adjust size of cdboot to 1.44Mb: #dd if=/dev/zero of=boot/cdboot.flp count=2880 #vnconfig -c /dev/vn0a boot/cdboot.flp #dd if=boot/cdboot of=/dev/vn0a #vnconfig -u /dev/vn0a In result I get cdboot.flp of size 1440Kb first 147XXX bytes of that is cdboot ISO image was builded with cdboot.flp as boot image: # mkisofs -R -U -b boot/cdboot.flp >image.iso When I try boot from burned CD, I see: > CD Loader 1.0 > Building the boot loader arguments > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader and nothing more :( -- Best regards, Dmitry mailto:yakovlev@nonel.pu.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message