Re: [TCLUG:19968] Bootable Image Lilo and CDRW

[Charles Fulton <cf352197@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>]

Jonathan Kline wrote:

I've pondered this problem a little.  I had a thought but haven't actually
tried it.  I'll just toss it out there, feel free to shoot it down.

What if you built the system you want on a loopback device, LILO and all.  Then
burn the image to a CD.  I could see how this might confuse LILO, it not
knowing where to bootstrap the kernel from.

A couple of questions that may be important.  Does LILO store the boot info as
an absolute address on a disk or relative to itself?  Does it even matter if
you did this all inside a file with loopback;  i.e. would LILO just get it
right for the file and carry it over to the CD when you burnt the image?

Charlie

> Okay heres the deal:
>     I need/want to make myself a system admin disk. I want it bootable and
> able to boot linux(maybe the bbc), dos, and a memory checker whichs can be
> booted through lilo.  Has anyone ever written lilo to a cdr or cdrw? Once I
> get the bootable stuff done, I need to add some other files, and sys admin
> tools, like fdisk, format.... Ghost, Drive Image.................  Most of
> the stuff I need from a day to day bais.  I want this cd to be the bomb.
> Anyone have any ideas as to how to do the bootable thing with dos, linux and
> the memory manger?