[ltp] Bootable CD

[Allen, Michael B (RSCH)]

I believe you must flag it bootable when it is created. You can use
mkisofs -b to create such an image. Of course it must be a working
system image rather than just a 'data cd'.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Frank Roberts - SOTL [SMTP:sotl155360@earthlink.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6:51 PM
> To:	Linux Thinkpad
> Subject:	[ltp] Bootable CD
> 
> One can copy a CD image from HD to CD by:
> cdrecord -dev=0,2,0 -speed=12 -data <file name>.iso
> for a data iso on my Thinkpad
> 
> One can likewise make a bootable floppie by:
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=8192
> 
> So, how soes one make a bootable CD?
> cdrecord -dev=0,2,0 -speed=12 boot.img <file name>.iso
> 
> I know well at least I think boot.img has to be in there somewhere.  So how 
> does one do this?
> 
> Thanks
> Frank
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