Making a boot CD - ohhhh, I'm close!

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 10:14 -0400, Alan McKay wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm trying to make a bootable install CD for PPC.   We've already done
> this for i386 and what we did was blow open the FC6 CD1, remove what
> we don't need, add what we do need, then glue it all back together
> with a magical incantation of "mkisofs".  Works great!  (We're
> installing FC6 and our stuff goes on top of it)
> 
> PPC has been a really different beast as I'm sure you all know.
> We're using the same approach by blowing open the FC6 CD1 but are
> having trouble with the magic incantation.   I came upon this list via
> google (only after some  2 or 3 hours of googling and reading,
> unfortunately), and found this thread from March of this year
> concerning this exact topic :
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/fedora-ppc/2007-March/000971.html
> 
> I  thought I was home free, but when I try what pnasrat suggests, I
> get this error :
> 
> Uh oh, I cant find the boot image "./yaboot"!


Try using ppc/chrp/yaboot it looks in the tree not outside it I think -
check the cdrkit source for details.

Paul