Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

[Hannes Mayer]

sean bruno wrote:

> Thanks for working on this one!
> 
> It's good to know that others are looking at it, however I am more
> interested in the causal failure here...
> 
> The CD can be booted on some CD readers, but not others.
> 
> This is what I would like to have solved.

Hi Sean!

I just compared the contents of /isolinux/ in boot.iso and the .iso
of FC2test2 and the only files which are slightly different are:

boot.cat
********
FC2test2:
bytes 28 and 29: 03 06
boot.iso
bytes 28 and 29: 79 05

isolinux.bin
************
FC2test2:
bytes 12 and 13: 03 06
boot.iso
bytes 12 and 13: 79 05

I'm not sure if this is of relevance, but just to mention it...

I made a bootable CD myself a few months ago and never encountered such
a strange behavior (all attempts to boot my CD worked well on the machine
I'm currently installing FC2 on).

I used this:

CDIMAGE=cdimg
ISO=my.iso
mkisofs -o $ISO -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
  -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -l \
  -R -r $CDIMAGE

Does anyone know how the current test2 iso's were built ?

Cheers,
Hannes.