From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 1:29: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailme.motherwell.com.au (mailme.motherwell.com.au [203.17.161.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CA0237B406 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 01:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28129 invoked by uid 505); 29 May 2002 03:29:14 -0000 Received: from g_laslett@motherwell.com.au by mailme.motherwell.com.au with qmail-scanner-0.96 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4203. . Clean. Processed in 1.589456 secs); 29 May 2002 03:29:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au) (192.168.70.13) by mailme.motherwell.com.au with SMTP; 29 May 2002 03:29:12 -0000 Received: from cbhlaptop.motherwell.com.au (CBHLAPTOP [192.168.70.232]) by exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id LXGRGQW5; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:29:12 +0800 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020529113001.00a8e5d0@exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au> X-Sender: GregL@exchange.pth.motherwell.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:36:03 +0800 To: Anthony.Wyatt@csiro.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Greg Laslett Subject: RE: Creating a CD to use cdboot instead of boot0 etc In-Reply-To: <4ABEF4D887D40745B8D6804C2FFA939F1A771E@hermes.la.csiro.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Thanks Anthony. The -no-emul-boot for mkisofs sorted it. I was getting confused with hard disk emulation which I expected to behave similar to 2.88 with disk container files etc etc. Regards, Greg Laslett. At 09:22 5/28/02 +1000, Anthony.Wyatt@csiro.au wrote: >Hi Greg, > > > From: Greg Laslett [mailto:g_laslett@motherwell.com.au] > > Subject: Creating a CD to use cdboot instead of boot0 etc > > > > Can anybody give me a working set of fdisk + disklabel + > > mkisofs type commands to create a bootable cd using the new > > cdboot bootstrap. > > Put all your files in a directory, I call mine ROOT. Make sure > the /boot/cdboot file is in your root somewhere, I keep it in ROOT/boot > and then try the following: > >mkisofs -l -R -L -o my.iso -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot ROOT > > You will have to make sure you have everything you need on that > CD to boot, and a writable /dev/partition etc. See > http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html for other hints. > >Hope this helps, >Anthony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message