Re: [Linux-ia64] Making a CD that is readable under efi

[Uros Prestor <uros@turbolinux.com>]

Randall G Chan/Fremont/IBM wrote:

> I was wondering if someone could explain how I would make a small partition
> that is readable under efi (~50-100 megs) and then including about 500 or
> so megs of data.  I have tried just creating a ISO9660 CD-Rom, but I can't
> read any of it's contents under efi.

The trick to have larger MS-DOS partitions is to create a file called boot.img
and format it as MS-DOS partition.  Place the file in the root directory of
the ISO9660 filesystem that you wish to burn on the CD.  For example, this
script will create a 50M boot.img file and copy stuff from /boot/efi into it:

     dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.img bs\x1024k countP
     /sbin/mkdosfs boot.img
     mount -t msdos -o loop boot.img /mnt
     cp -av /boot/efi/* /mnt
     df /mnt
     umount /mnt

Be careful with 2.4.0 kernels -- the loop device is broken.  Run the above
script on a 2.2 kernel.

Create ISO image with mkisofs (we use version 1.13a05) as follows:

     mkisofs  -no-emul-boot -b boot.img -c boot.catalog \
         -R -T -J -o cdrom.img /path/to/the/cd/root

When you burn the ISO image be sure to disable MS Jolliet extensions.

Hope this helps,
Uros

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