[TriLUG] Re: Bootable CD

[Marty Ferguson]

This is for the 7.1 distribution:

Offset to the floppy disk boot sector is decimal 1000 (hex 03E8) 
from the beginning of the CD.

dd if=/dev/hdd of=bootsector bs=2048 count=720 skip=1000

[root at lx3 /root]# file bootsector 
bootsector: x86 boot sector, system SYSLINUX, FAT (12 bit)

[root at lx3 /root]# mount -o loop -t msdos bootsector /mp
[root at lx3 /root]# ls /mp
boot.msg  expert.msg  general.msg  initrd.img  ldlinux.sys  param.msg  
rescue.msg  syslinux.cfg  vmlinuz

See:
http://www.cdpage.com/CD-ROM/bootablecd.html

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Marty Ferguson
mailto:marty.ferguson at pobox.com        919-544-9575
Red Hat Certified Engineer   (RHCE #806199530900860)