[Gllug] UK Government software

[Colin Murphy]

On Thursday 11 July 2002 7:33 am, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> >However, I think I need to pass some other options to cdrecord to make
> > the CdRom bootable. I would be grateful for any help before I churn
> > out some more duds from my dwindling supply of writeable Cds.
>
> Nope. The bootableness of a CD is determined by the contents of the ISO
> image, not by how it's written to the CD. Thus if you already have an
> ISO image, but it's not bootable, you're pretty much out of luck. I
> guess you could extract the contents, add a boot image, and then rebuild
> the ISO using the -b flag to mkisofs...

I have always failed with this because I simply don't understand what is 
required for the boot image and boot catalog parameters when making the 
ISO.  Is it one of the files in /boot ???

-- 
Colin Murphy
SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk

A man for all seasons, 'specially pepper.


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