[plug] Partimage boot disk or cd

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Oct 14 23:06:24 WST 2003


On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:52:25PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
| Okay,
| 
| This one MD5sum'ed alright and I made a directory inside the temp folder
| where I copied the iso (from the loop moun thing) and used that to place
| the image created using parted.
| 
| I then did:
| 
| mkisofs -r -l -o part.iso /tmpiso/mnt/
| 
| umask 077 
| cdrecord -v =dev,0,0,0 speed=4 -data part.iso
| 
| Anyway for some reason it didn't boot... any ideas?

If you're using mkisofs to make a bootable image, you need to use the -b
option to tell it what to boot.  man mkisofs may help...

CP.

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