Burning bootable CDs with XCDRoast

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thank you.  I'll try this.

James McDonald wrote:

> 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

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