Re: How to create a bootable CDROM.

[Han Holl]

On Monday 11 February 2002 07:54 pm, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks Thierry,

I'm using Jeremy Katz's grub-0.91-0.20020102 rpm, and your patch did not
apply to that. If I understand you correctly, it's just a matter of waiting a
couple of weeks, and I cab run your script with the mainstream grub ?
If that's the case, I'll just wait.
My method may be ugly, but it works.

Cheers,

Han Holl
> Cheers,