Re: Questions about make a boot CD with Debian.
High,
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, MESQUITA,GIOVANI (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) wrote:
> I have used Debian to create a Boot CD. I've used two approaches:
>
> * Create a CD with boot sector in Linux, but the lilo program
> didn't recognize a root=/dev/hdc, resulting the error: FATAL: Not a number:
> /dev/hdc. My lilo.conf is:
>
> lba32
> read-only
> vga=normal
> image=/vmlinuz
> ramdisk=49152
> root=/dev/hdc
>
> * Create a CD with boot DOS and using loadlin to load Linux. I
> try use loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd, but the loader program always enter
> in /dev/hda1.
>
> I have read a Bootdisk-Howto and Loadlin manual and not discovery
> the problem. I have the Debian 2.2 (potato), loadlin 1.6, lilo 21.7-5 and
> yard. Any help welcome.
>
AFAIK a bootable CD is nothing more than a 1.44MB floppy followed by the
CD image. You have to take a closer look at the cdrecord options for more
information about how to do this (I have never tried it, so this is all
info I can give you).
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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