Any secret to burning bootable CD's?

[Brian Densmore]

There are certain things you must do to make a cd bootable. You will
need to read the CD-Burning-HOWTO (it definitely tells you how to make a
bootable CD, but I don't recall the instructions). Bootable CDs are
definitely different from other CDs. The old cliche "location is
everything" applies here. A boot image must be written to the CD and it
needs to be in a certain place.

Sorry I can't give you specifics, I haven't burnt a bootable yet.

Hope this points you in the right direction,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Hoelschers [mailto:mohoel at telocity.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 10:27 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Any secret to burning bootable CD's?
> 
> 
> Got a nifty little pgm (mondo-archive) to try backing up to 
> CD.  It goes
> through and makes ISO images of the hard drive, and it's all pretty
> cool.  I know I have decent ISO's 'cuz I can mount as loop dev's and
> read away.
> 
> Now I try burning using Xcdroast.  Get a nice CD, but it 
> ain't bootable.
> 
> Looked through cdrecord manpage and don't see any nifty flag to make
> bootable.
> 
> The image does have a boot.cat file in the root directory, and various
> mindi-boot.<size here>.img files in /images, and my bios is 
> set to boot
> from CD, but no-go.  Am I missing something?  Here is an ls -l of the
> image;
> 
> [root at BigBoss loop]# ls -l
> total 47
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root        38912 Oct  2 13:02 archives/
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root         2048 Oct  2 13:02 boot.cat
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Oct  2 11:56 images/
> dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root         2048 Oct  2 11:54 mnt/
> dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root         2048 Oct  2 11:56 usr/
> [root at BigBoss loop]# cd images
> [root at BigBoss images]# ls -l
> total 13378
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      1652684 Oct  2 11:53 1.tar.gz
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      1643629 Oct  2 11:53 2.tar.gz
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root       358933 Oct  2 11:53 3.tar.gz
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root          256 Oct  2 11:56 df.txt
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      1763328 Oct  2 11:54
> mindi-boot.1722.img
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      2949120 Oct  2 11:54
> mindi-boot.2880.img
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      1763328 Oct  2 11:53 
> mindi-data-1.img
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      1763328 Oct  2 11:53 
> mindi-data-2.img
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      1763328 Oct  2 11:53 
> mindi-data-3.img
> [root at BigBoss images]#
> [root at BigBoss images]#   
> 
> Thanks -
> 
> Chris.
> 
> 
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