Nomor S. Pam wrote:
>
> I've been booting linux by loading LILO from floppy. I just got a new
> floppyless notebook with a CDROM drive. How can I boot linux from CDROM
> without installing LILO or GRUB to hard disk?

Make a bootdisk then "dd" it to a file.
Then "mkisofs -b file" using the file from above as the boot image.

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David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<WiHSa.108694$Ph3.14155@sccrnsc04>...
> Nomor S. Pam wrote:
> >
> > I've been booting linux by loading LILO from floppy. I just got a new
> > floppyless notebook with a CDROM drive. How can I boot linux from CDROM
> > without installing LILO or GRUB to hard disk?
>
> Make a bootdisk then "dd" it to a file.
> Then "mkisofs -b file" using the file from above as the boot image.

Is there any way of creating a bootable CD without creating a bootdisk
first? I don't have a working diskette drive.

- Beth

Beth wrote:
>
> Is there any way of creating a bootable CD without creating a bootdisk
> first? I don't have a working diskette drive.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=bootdisk bs=1440k count=1
# mke2fs bootdisk
# mkdir /mnt/disk
# mount -o rw,loop=/dev/loop0 bootdisk /mnt/disk
# lilo -b /dev/loop0
# umount /mnt/disk
# mkisofs -b bootdisk

You should check this as it is off the top of my head and I
haven't tested it but it should give you an idea as to how it is
done.

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David wrote:
> Beth wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there any way of creating a bootable CD without creating a bootdisk
>> first? I don't have a working diskette drive.
>
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=bootdisk bs=1440k count=1
> # mke2fs bootdisk
> # mkdir /mnt/disk
> # mount -o rw,loop=/dev/loop0 bootdisk /mnt/disk
> # lilo -b /dev/loop0
> # umount /mnt/disk
> # mkisofs -b bootdisk
>
> You should check this as it is off the top of my head and I haven't
> tested it but it should give you an idea as to how it is done.
>

You could use "syslinux" also but you would format the file to
MSDOS format so that syslinux can write to it.

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