[ale] How to make a CD with just a bootable kernel?

[Jason Day]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:26:51PM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   I have a system at home that is having loads of fun with lilo for some
> reason I haven't been able to pin down yet.  This system won't boot from
> floppy correctly, it blows up as if it's getting a couple bad blocks or
> something.  It will happily boot off CDRom though.  On my floppy I just
> do a:
> 
> dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
> 
> and the floppy will boot and then use root correctly,  etc.  Does anyone
> have a simple command that'll do this with a scsi cdrom?  I burn CD's
> regularly with cdrecord but I've never made a bootable CD...

My understanding of the way a bootable CD works is that it fools the
BIOS into thinking it's a floppy drive.  Will mkisofs let you use a
kernel image as a boot image?  If so, you might just be able to do that.
If not, I don't know.

Jason
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