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Re: Redboot Bootable CD

From: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
Cc: M Arshad Khan <marshadkhan at gmail dot com>, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 08 Jun 2007 13:56:37 +0100
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redboot Bootable CD
References: <4690b0d10706072237l479886e3sf768d5ee5e2b921a@mail.gmail.com> <20070608122305.GA14051@lunn.ch>

Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:37:33AM +0500, M Arshad Khan wrote:
> > Hello
> > is there any way of making Redboot bootable CD instead of floppy?
> 
> I believe the bootable CD format is actually based around floppy. Take
> a read of http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/cd-roms.html and other
> similar HOWTOs.

While the current floppy code could be adapted, the simplest approach
is probably to build RedBoot for GRUB booting and then install GRUB on
the CD to load RedBoot.


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