Re-creating bootable image from boot.iso

[Jerone Young]

Ok happened to try this today and things work fine. My JS20 blade got to
yaboot & booted the kernel on the boot.iso image I burned to CD.

All is well.

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:57 -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
> Anyone tested the ppc boot.iso in RAW hide for Fedora Core 7. I've been
> netbooting to install as of recent. But I do rember it not being able to
> boot properly on my pseries workstation when I burned it to a CD. I
> think that the -map option may have been missing.
> 
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 20:51 +0200, Robert Allerstorfer wrote:
> > fedora essentially:
> > > mkisofs -o boot.iso -chrp-boot -U \
> > > -prep-boot ppc/chrp/yaboot \
> > > -part -hfs -T -r -l -J \
> > > -A "Fedora 4" -sysid PPC -V "PBOOT" -volset 4 -volset-size 1 \
> > > -volset-seqno 1 -hfs-volid 4 -hfs-bless $(pwd)/ppc/ppc \
> > > -map mapping -magic magic -no-desktop -allow-multidot \
> > > $(pwd)/ppc
> > 
> > > Note the hfs-bless using a full path due to mkisofs wackiness.
> > 
> > Thank you Paul, Luciano and David - works now :-)
> > 
> > OK, "for the archives", to get the image bootable, 'ofboot.b' must be
> > blessed as HFS in the CD's root directory, as type 'tbxi'
> > (all-lowercase - 'TBXI' won't work!).
> > 
> > Since there is no need to have any other file than 'ofboot.b' to be
> > associated with a certain type, I didn't use the full mapping table. I
> > think this is a more elegant way and it just WORKS. Here is the full
> > set of commands I have used:
> > 
> > test -d boot || mkdir boot
> > mount -o loop boot.iso boot
> > r 
> 
> 
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