grok wrote:
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:10, roberto vicini wrote:
Hello, i'm new to that list, is it possible to make a bootable packet writing CD? How i can make a CD with first session ISO9660 for booting and a second session formatted in packet writing with UDF or eventually EXT fs?
Thank in advance, i hope this is not a faq.
Roberto.
I'm not the one with the details here; but at least you'd probably like to hear that the "El Torito" extensions (to ISO9660?) have the first section of a CD-R behaving like a 2.88MB floppy, for booting purposes -- so I don't see why you couldn't have such a hybrid CD.
But you'll want to hear the definitive answer from somebody who actually knows. ;>
-- grok.
Actually i have made a CD with the first session made with cdrwtool and formatted with ext2 and a second session with bootable iso9660, because the bios search the sector 17 of the first session for booting purpose, i have copied with dd the sector 17 from the iso to the first session (packet writing). this cd is bootable, but i don't know if sector 17 is safe from writing (need a patch?). My goal is make a cd with the first session with iso9660 bootable and a second session with packet writing, but i don't know how to format a second session with cdrwtool (how to indicate the first session start and stop). Roberto.