Re: How to prepare an ISO 9660 CD for booting via GRUB ?

[Drake Donahue]

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:43 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Drake Donahue wrote:
> > Attached is a script I use to make a legacy grub booting cd that
> > provides an alternate way to boot the system it was built on. 
> > [...]
> > mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4
> > -boot-info-table -o grub.iso iso
> 
> This resembles a reply of Joerg Schilling to the
> example given by Robert Millan. Joerg wrote
> January 10 on address@hidden mailing
> list:
> >>   mkisofs -V "$volid" -o xxx.iso -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito
> >> -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table somedir
> 
> Is that GRUB2 or GRUB-Legacy ?
> (I'd like to support both. But GRUB2 is of
>  course first goal.)
> 
> Well, i see the same options as with ISOLINUX.
> So this gesture should already be possible
> by xorriso:
>   xorriso -as mkisofs ...above.options...
> 
> Is there by chance a resulting image available
> which i could test and examine ?
> (The smaller the better. Booting up to a GRUB
>  menu would suffice.)
> 
> 
run the script it generates the image, presuming on a linux system
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
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