From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 14:18:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7490A16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 14:18:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from jane.spg.more.net (jane.spg.more.net [207.160.133.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E83A43FBF for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 14:18:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@more.net) Received: from more.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jane.spg.more.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79B0132F8; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:18:38 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3FCFB2BE.60001@more.net> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:18:38 -0600 From: Dan D Niles User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030904 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Handbook 12.5.2 mkisofs X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:18:42 -0000 I am trying to make a FreeBSD 5.1 bootable CD, and I'm not having much luck. The handbook (12.5.2) says to use: # *mkisofs -U -R -b boot/cdboot -o /tmp/bootable.iso /tmp/myboot **It appears the handbook is incorrect, because **when I do this, I get the error: Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> mkisofs: Error - boot image 'image/boot/cdboot' is not the an allowable size. I tried adding the -no-emul-boot option and mkisofs works, but the resulting image does not boot (the machine hangs where I should be seing the boot menu). Can you point me to a document on creating a (custom) FreeBSD 5.x bootable CD? Thanks, Dan *