Re: how to create a bootable CD
maxime baudin <mbaudin@iut.univ-mlv.fr> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 05:40:18PM -0500, Chuque Berry wrote:
>
> > I just D/L the iso image for one of the mirrors and then burnt that to cd
> > .. worked like a charm.
> I did, but I like to make an special ISO CD image...
> Ok, let's ask in another way:
> does Sun boot prom support El torito ??
No. Sun was booting from CDs long before El Torito was invented, and
El Torito is a rather silly way to do it. (Necessary on PC's because
the BIOS is rather simple minded.)
> If not, how to make a bootable ISO image for Sun ?
You need to use silo to make the CD image bootable. Get the slink-cd
package from potato, and look at how it makes the CD. (There should
be some info in /usr/doc/silo too.)
Make sure that neither the kernel, nor the initial ramdisk is the last
file on the CD, otherwise it won't boot.
If you're using an x86 machine, you can get intelsilo from:
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham/debian/silo
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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