CDROM Boot Image insanity

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Greg Wildman <rhlist at itns.co.za> said:
> I have been following this "Cannot Boot CD" saga from the outset. One 
> thing I noticed when I tried to roll my own boot disc and from the 
> suggestion (point 2) above, there is no boot.cat in the isolinux directory.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong but I have checked every few days (I rsync to 
> rawhide daily) and there is no boot.cat in the isolinux dir. According 
> to the mkisofs man page:

The boot.cat file is _created_ by mkisofs.  From your man page excerpt:

>    This file will be inserted
>    into the output tree and not created in the  source  filesystem,
>    so  be  sure  the  specified  filename does not conflict with an
>    existing file, as it will  be  excluded.

If there was a boot.cat in the tree that the ISO image is built from, it
would be a problem.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.