Hi, on occasion of this thread on debian-bsd list http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/07/msg00237.html i would like to ask how much effort it is to make ISO images of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD bootable from memory stick.
------------------------------------------------------------------- What i found out so far: The images http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.2.1/kfreebsd-amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.2.1-kfreebsd-amd64-netinst.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/current/kfreebsd-amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-kfreebsd-amd64-businesscard.iso boot by help of GRUB 1.98. They do not bear an MBR. The same GRUB version was used to make this image bootable from stick: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-kfreebsd-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso Robert Millan indicated that mini.iso was made by help of GRUB script grub-mkrescue. grub-mkrescue creates a "core" boot image file by grub-mkimage This core image gets prepended file ${pc_dir}/cdboot.img to generate the EL-Torito boot image file (for mkisofs option -b). The same core image becomes an MBR based boot image file (for option -G) by prepending ${pc_dir}/boot.img So it might be easy to get an MBR boot image file if one can put some lines of code into the producer of the El-Torito image file. I installed package debian-cd on squeeze GNU/Linux and see in /usr/share/debian-cd/tools/boot/squeeze/boot-kfreebsd that the El Torito boot image file stems from cdrom/debian-cd_info.tar.gz The producer of this tarball obviously knows how to create the file boot/grub/grub_eltorito for GRUB 1.98. This file is used with mkisofs option -b. Yet i did not find the code which produces cdrom/debian-cd_info.tar.gz . Actually i riddle: Where does boot/grub/grub_eltorito get produced ? Is grub-mkimage used there ? Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/98236095820971@192.168.2.69
