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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:06:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640512152206o3083b355n539f0e745e33d17d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640512152202q29c3fa2eh505c7c9399be9656@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/15/05, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> bootable, but mkisofs.  To use GRUB, you have to make a /boot/grub
> directory in your CD tree, and copy the stage2_eltorito file into that
> directory along with grub.conf/menu.lst.

Oh, I forgot one thing.  Instead of (hdX,X) in grub.conf, you use
(cd).  For example:

title 2.6
    kernel (cd)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6 root=/dev/hdc

Of course, your kernel must have support for your CD-ROM drive and the
iso9660 filesystem built in...

-Richard

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-16  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-15 13:03 [gentoo-user] Backups Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-12-15 15:45 ` [gentoo-user] Backups James
2005-12-15 16:33 ` reader
2005-12-15 16:53 ` [gentoo-user] Backups Richard Fish
2005-12-15 17:27   ` John J. Foster
2005-12-15 19:15   ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-15 20:04     ` Richard Fish
2005-12-15 20:26       ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-12-16 13:13         ` Paweł Madej
2005-12-16 15:20           ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-12-16 16:58           ` [gentoo-user] Backups reader
2005-12-15 21:49       ` [gentoo-user] Backups Neil Bothwick
2005-12-16  3:40     ` [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] " Ow Mun Heng
2005-12-16  6:02       ` Richard Fish
2005-12-16  6:06         ` Richard Fish [this message]
2005-12-16  6:11         ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-12-16  7:57           ` Uwe Thiem
2005-12-16  9:56       ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-22 14:26     ` Michael Kintzios
2005-12-22 19:30       ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-22 21:45         ` [gentoo-user] Backups reader

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