[nlug] Re: creating bootable cd image with mkisofs

From: Tomoki Taniguchi (tomoki.taniguchi@gmail.com)
Date: 05/04/07

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    thanx steven,
    that was the problem.
    I was specifing the path reletive to current dir

    I've gotten the cd image to boot in vmware
    now i just have to figure out how to turn off the
    hardware check in automain.bat

    -Tom

    On 5/5/07, Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com> wrote:
    > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:35 +0900, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
    > > man page for mkisofs lists -b option as
    > >
    > > -b eltorito_boot_image
    > >
    > > I included the -b opion as suggested and i get the following error
    > >
    > > <snip>
    > > mkisofs -b mnt-copy/BOOTIMG.BIN -o recovery-dvd.iso mnt-copy/
    > >
    > > I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
    > > Unknown file type (unallocated) mnt-copy/.. - ignoring and continuing.
    > > genisoimage: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image 'mnt-copy/BOOTIMG.BIN' !
    > > <snip>
    > >
    > > I have also tried this using the full path to the BOOTIMG.BIN file
    > > still didn't work...
    > >
    > > any clue what i'm doing wrong here?
    >
    > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/cd-roms.html
    >
    > The -b option specifies the boot image to be used (note the path is
    > relative to the root of the iso9660 disk)
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    > Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
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