"Henning, Brian" wrote: > I have a grub boot floopy that has no file system. It just boots into grub. > I want to be able to put this floppy boot section onto a cd image to burn to > a cd. I don't really care if the cd image has a file system or not. I just > want it to boot grub. I am pretty sure I need to use dd to pull write the cd > image. Can anyone give me a functional overview of what i need to do to make > this work?
Well, I haven't tried this but it should work. Assume you have mkisofs and cdrecord already, and assume you have a floppy image called 'boot.img'. If you have the floppy but no image, run 'dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=10k count=144' assuming it's a 1.44 floppy. Put this boot.img in an otherwise empty directory, and from that directory run mkisofs -b boot.img -c boot.catalog . | cdrecord -v . mkisofs will generate the boot.catalog file for you. Add '-dummy' to cdrecord if you want a test run first. If cdrecord doesn't know about your cdr then you'll need to add 'dev=x,y,z' and possibly 'speed=n'. If you just want to create the .iso file then you can use '-o boot.iso' with mkisofs instead of piping it to cdrecord. The '.' at the end of mkisofs is still required though. There's a file 'README.eltorrito' in /usr/share/doc/mkisofs that explains how to do boot CDs. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
