Re: How to create a bootable CDROM.

[Thierry Laronde]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:09:04PM +0100, Han Holl wrote:
> 
> Hello,

Hello,

> 
> I need a bootable rescue CDrom, with 2.88 floppy image as
> boot.
> I can create a floppy image on disk, and populate it with a
> kernel and an initrd, but how do I put grub on this ?
> 


I have written a Bourne shell script named `mkbimage' (MaKe a Bootable
IMAGE) that one can find here:

http://corpus.polynum.org/admin/mkbimage

It allows to create "virtual images" including 1.2, 1.44, 2.88 or HD
emulation for an El Torito compatible CDROM.

At the moment, one needs to patch GRUB. Patches against 0.90 version can
be found here:

http://alpha.polynum.org/misc/

I haven't updated the patches since Okuji Yoshinori has asked for a
rewrite of stage1 which will include the code needed for El Torito to
work properly. This should be a question of a few days now.

Cheers,
-- 
Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <address@hidden>
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