HOWTO create your own iso : ============================================================================== The older crash recovery kit iso's used the 2.88 Mb floppy El-torito boot-emulation. However the thing has gone to big and i'm not able anymore to use 2.88 Mb floppy-emulation with mkisofs to make cdboot.img bootable inside my iso. Instead i now use the disk-emulation option. here's the one-liner to create the iso : /usr/bin/mkisofs -b boot/diskimage.img -c boot/boot.catalog \ -hard-disk-boot -o /mnt/data2/crash2418.iso -l -r -L -J \ -V "CRK for Linux 2.4.18" -P "CRK-2002032801" -p "stock" \ -A "CRK for Linux 2.4.18" "/mnt/data2/crash2418" The downside is i have to use a physical partition on my first harddisk (/dev/sda /dev/sda1) to manipulate the contents of diskimage.img. The procedure to activate lilo is : # fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 555 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1 8001 83 Linux Command (m for help): q # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/root # cd /mnt/root # lilo -C etc/lilo.conf # sync # sync # cd / # umount /mnt/root # dd if=/dev/sda of=diskimage.img bs=1k count=8192 here's the contents of /mnt/root/etc/lilo.conf : boot=/dev/sda map=boot/map install=boot/boot.b message=etc/message.txt compact prompt image=vmlinuz label=linux append="root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=8192" initrd=boot/rootrh72.gz root=/dev/ram0 read-only IMPORTANT!! : If you use the procedure outlined above always rerun lilo on your ordinary /etc/lilo.conf . Otherwise you will only be able to boot your CRK for Linux 2.4.18 from harddisk ( i.e. /dev/sda1 ) afterwards. With every release of CRK for 2.4.x i will include a tar.gz tarball of the contents of the /dev/sda1 partition described above. It will be on the CRK cdrom and as a seperate download. They are located inside the boot directory and called in this case diskfiles2418.tar.gz . For more info email me at stock@stokkie.net Robert M. Stockmann Last changed Mon Apr 15 09:55:58 CEST 2002