On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:20:54PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:05:55PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:59:24AM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> > > Oh, fine! Are there things mkisofs can do and makefs can't which are
> > > needed to create the NetBSD image?
> > 
> > I'm not sure for mac* stuff.
> > For i386 and amd64 support is complete, all other ports use different tools
> > to postprocess the iso-image.
> 
> Having now read the installboot(8) page, it explains how to make
> a bootable cdrom using cdbootblocks, booting the kernel off the
> "ordinary" bit of CD. I have had another go at trying to replicate
> the "bootfloppy as el-torito image" version of proceedings we used
> with makeisofs, but get a non-booting coaster. So the following 2
> lines are not equivalent:
> 
> mkisofs -o output.iso -b i386/installation/floppy/boot-big.fs \
> -c boot.catalog -l -J -R -L \
> /usr/src/releasedir
> 
> makefs -t cd9660 -o 'allow-multidot,rockridge,bootimage=i386;/usr/src/releasedir
> /i386/installation/floppy/boot-big.fs' output.iso /usr/src/releasedir

Show us what makefs prints, and any console output during boot.

Dave

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