Re-creating bootable image from boot.iso

Jerone Young jyoung5 at us.ibm.com
Fri Mar 30 16:57:45 EDT 2007


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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