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From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com>
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Subject: Bootable CD...
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:49:59 -0400
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Hi,


I am trying to build a bootable CD... Now this sounds like something trivial
enough to do when you know what you are doing. In my case I must admit that
I am somewhat confused.

Until now, I think that the trick was to make the CD look like a floppy and
boot it as such. I have created some bootable CDs in the past and they
seemed to work OK.

However it looks like things have changed recently in the way CD-Roms are
booted, and I am not able to create a working CD anymore.

What I would like to clarify is what needs to be in the "2.88 M" bootable
image ?

Here is what I have:

/boot
    /boot0
    /boot1
    /boot2
    /loader
    /cdboot
    /pxeboot
    /loader.config
    /loader.rc
/boot.config
/kernel.config
/kernel.gz
/modules
    ...
/usr/sbin
    ibcs2
    linux
    svr4


Now whenever I boot this image, the loader dies displaying a all whack hex
values and saying "BTX Halted".


I am a bit confused as to what to do next, and I would really appreciate any
help.

BTW I am working on a fresh copy of FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE (checked-out August
15).


Patrick.




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