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

[Jerry Z. Yu]

	I believe in gtoaster (a gnome frendend to cdrecord), there is a 
checkbox to make the cd bootable. 
	
	from mkisofs, u have:
       mkisofs [ -b eltorito_boot_image ] [ -eltorito-alt-boot ]
       [  -B  sparc_boot_image_list ] [ -G generic_boot_image ] [


On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Jason Day wrote:

#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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