On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hey. I like old fashioned. >> >> How does that handle the 'bootable' part of the CD? I presume there is >> the equivalent of an MBR on a CD so the PC can get started. Is that >> visible copying the root of the drive? (I'm at a Windows box as I >> write this. Sorry!) > > > Well if it's El Torito you just point mkisofs to the boot image. But > since you say it's a DOS CD, who knows. >
Well if it matters, the CD was created created in Windows XP using ISORecorder. You download a Windows executable file from the GRC site. When you execute that file it gives you some options one of which is to save an ISO image. I saved the image and then wrote the CD in XP using ISORecorder. I then boot the CD to run the program. When the CD boots it's using FreeDOS and an environment to run the low-level SpinRite program which has always been a DOS program. My real goal is to 'recreate' this existing bootable CD that I made using their ISO image but with a few more drivers than they provided. - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
