To -> David Jackson Re: [ale] Is there anyone out there that fully understands the boot p

[Mike Panetta]

Take a look at syslinux.  I believe its what redhat and some other distros use as a CD boot system to get the installer running.  As for the FS, the cdimage itself is ISO9660, but the el torito boot image is a fat filesystem, and can be just about any size, but floppy disk size is most common (and most compatible).

If you have a set of redhat CD's I believe they have the tools on them that you can use to make your own bootable install CD's for a custom distro.  Or atleast they used to (as of 6.something).

Mike

-------Original Message-------
From: Christopher Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: 05/19/03 10:13 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: To -> David Jackson    Re: [ale] Is there anyone out there that fully understands the boot process ? If yes, please help...........

> 
> I have some questions about this also, if anyone has done it.  I've read 
the bootdisk howto; but it's horribly outdated.  I'm just trying to 
build my own distro (which I know is beyond the scope of this list 
(well, not scope; but the practicality).  I've got a bootable cdrom, but 
I'm not sure how to point it to the filesystem, and if I can put the 
filesystem on the CD - I've been hearing that I have to make it a FAT 
CD; but even if so, how do I point the kernel at it? /dev/hdc?  I have 
ton's of questions about this, but if anyone is familiar with it and 
could offer some pointers (even a general list of  'steps' that I could 
followup with independently) I would be very appreciative.

Best thanks,
CB





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