Burning bootable CDs with XCDRoast

[James McDonald]

Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

>I'm attempting to burn a bootable CD with XCDRoast (.98alpha10) and it's 
>not working.   I have an iso that I need to make into a bootable CD.
>
>I follow the docs at the xcdroast.org site and set up the iso under the 
>Write tracks section - it's selected, the layout is accepted and the iso 
>shows up as being selected.  
>
>I then go to the Master tracks section and set it up for El Torito boot by 
>pointing it to a 1.44 floppy image and telling it to make it bootable.  
>
>However, when I boot of the CD it says 2.88MB image and then "failed to 
>boot".  I know I'm overlooking something obvious here.  Any help is 
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>  
>
This works for me and I have successfully used xcdroast to burn the 
resulting iso to be used as a bootable cd

   1. Create a directory in a convenient place
      mkdir $HOME/cd_build
   2. Create a subdirectory to hold the boot image
      mkdir cd_build/boot
   3. cd cd_build
   4. Copy the floppy image you want to boot from off the floppy
      dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot/boot.img bs=1k count=1440
   5. Now add all the files you want burnt onto cd to the cd_build dir
   6. Run the command to create the iso image (don't forget the dot at
      the end)
      mkisofs -r -b boot/boot.img -c boot/boot.catalog -o bootcd.iso .
   7. Using your favourite burning software burn the bootcd.iso file to a CD

http://www.jamesmcdonald.id.au/faqs/mine/bootable_cd_linux.html