[SOLVED] Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error
Donald R. Spoon wrote: I went through this a couple of weeks ago, and finally the light-bulb came on. ALL of the extra work needed to make a CD bootable is done during the creation of the ISO image. Once you have that, then the burining process is exactly the same for either bootable or non-bootable. So if you have a bootable ISO image already, all you need to do is burn it! I wasted a lot of time and blank CDRs on that before I got hit with the clue-bat. Cheers, -Don Spoon- Thanks, Don, Carlos Alvin. I stopped trying so hard it dawned on me the next day. I was almost there when I tried to mount the .iso for the boot.img, but I was still pointing to the .iso for the filesystem. Instead I pointed xcdroast at /cdrom (where the .iso was mounted) told it to translate the /cdrom/ part of the path to /. I specified the boot.img relative to that directory (KNOPPIX/boot.img) left the default for boot.catalog.. and it worked After Don's message, I'm not 100% sure I needed to go through the trouble, but I've already wasted too many CD-Rs to feel like experimenting -- kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:55:50 -0500 Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: Hi, After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the (...snip tons of strange stuff...) Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Where else should I be putting the 'boot.img'? All that is needed to create a bootable Knoppix CD is burn it, like: cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -dao -data KNOPPIX_V3.1-10-09-2002b-EN.iso ^ (in my case) or using xcdroast to burn an already prepared cd image, without any esoteric options. Should take only a few minutes... Or did I misunderstand your intentions? -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error
Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: Hi, After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the downloaded .iso, I think with xcdroast I am finally almost there. All except for this error: Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. mkisofs 1.15a39 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Writing: Initial Padbock Start Block 0 Done with: Initial Padbock Block(s)16 Writing: Primary Volume Descriptor Start Block 16 Done with: Primary Volume Descriptor Block(s)1 Writing: Eltorito Volume Descriptor Start Block 17 mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image 'boot.img' ! boot.img is in the same directory as the source Knoppix image, as recommended by the 'Boot options' tab's mouseover hottip message: -rw-r--r--1 kenneth kenneth 733675520 Dec 10 23:26 KNOPPIX_V3.1-10-09-2002b-EN.iso -rw-r--r--1 kenneth kenneth 2048 Dec 11 17:07 boot.cat -rw-r--r--1 kenneth kenneth 1474560 Dec 11 17:05 boot.img I put it boot.cat there by mounting the .iso and copying them from the CD with dd if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=./boot.img dd if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.cat of=./boot.cat I have logging set to verbose this is what it reports when I push the 'Master to image file' button on the 'Create session/image' tab: Wed Dec 11 17:08:06 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Entering create cd Wed Dec 11 17:08:07 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Entering create: master menu Wed Dec 11 17:08:09 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Getting size of mkisofs-imageWed Dec 11 17:08:09 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Executing: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap MKISOFS -gui -v -r -J -jcharset default -l -D -L -print-size -b boot.img -c boot.cat -V -P -p -abstract -biblio -copyright-graft-points /=/home/kenneth/temp/KNOPPIX_V3.1-10-09-2002b-EN.iso Wed Dec 11 17:08:44 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Master image /home/kenneth/temp/xcdroast/track-01.img Wed Dec 11 17:08:44 2002 XCDR 0.98alpha10: Executing: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap MKISOFS -gui -v -r -J -jcharset default -l -D -L -b boot.img -c boot.cat -V -P -p -abstract -biblio -copyright -o /home/kenneth/temp/xcdroast/track-01.img -graft-points /=/home/kenneth/temp/KNOPPIX_V3.1-10-09-2002b-EN.iso the directory /home/kenneth/temp/xcdroast is where I set it to store its temporary files. I found this page which indicates 'boot.img' must be on the source filesystem, but the source I'm using is already an .iso so I'm not sure how I can achieve that: http://www.linuxmanagers.org/pipermail/linuxmanagers/2002-September/000695.html I tried copying boot.img to both / ~temp/xcdroast I tried using the one directly off the source .iso mounted as /cdrom I'm running sid with: xcdroast 0.98alpha10 mkisofs 1.15a39 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Where else should I be putting the 'boot.img'? Thanks in advance, kenneth I went through this a couple of weeks ago, and finally the light-bulb came on. ALL of the extra work needed to make a CD bootable is done during the creation of the ISO image. Once you have that, then the burining process is exactly the same for either bootable or non-bootable. So if you have a bootable ISO image already, all you need to do is burn it! I wasted a lot of time and blank CDRs on that before I got hit with the clue-bat. Cheers, -Don Spoon- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:55:50 -0500 Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: Hi, After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the (...snip tons of strange stuff...) Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Where else should I be putting the 'boot.img'? use a properly created ( 1.44MB ) floppy image for creating boot.img else it wont boot... - or copy the boot.img and rest of the knoppix cd without going thru the headache of mkisofs mkisofs -b boot.img -c boot.cat ... /bin /sbin /lib /dev /root /boot ... directories to copy to cdrom more gory howtos http://www.linux-1u.net/CDRW/ have fun alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:11:56 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:55:50 -0500 Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: Hi, After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the (...snip tons of strange stuff...) Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Where else should I be putting the 'boot.img'? use a properly created ( 1.44MB ) floppy image for creating boot.img else it wont boot... - or copy the boot.img and rest of the knoppix cd without going thru the headache of mkisofs mkisofs -b boot.img -c boot.cat ... /bin /sbin /lib /dev /root /boot ... directories to copy to cdrom more gory howtos http://www.linux-1u.net/CDRW/ Kenneth's the one needing help on this, not me. have fun I'm having fun already trying to make sense of your strangely formatted email... ;) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
