On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Ajay Shekhawat wrote:
> I had heard that CDROM boot specs require that the boot image be 1.44MB.
> I'm not sure about that tho'; maybe someone else can comment on this.
depends on if you need an El Torito type bootable CD: man
mkisofs states:
-b eltorito_boot_image
Specifies the path and filename of the boot image to be used
when making an "El Torito" bootable CD. The pathname must be
relative to the source path specified to mkisofs. This option
is required to make an "El Torito" bootable CD. The boot image
must be exactly the size of either a 1.2, 1.44, or a 2.88 meg
floppy, and mkisofs will use this size when creating the output
iso9660 filesystem. It is assumed that the first 512 byte sector
should be read from the boot image (it is essentially emulating
a normal floppy drive). This will work, for example, if the
boot image is a LILO based boot floppy.
- Russ herrold
