#2 Bootable CD creation/

[Anonymous]

Great boot manager, but I would like to get it loaded
to a CD, and floppies with it written to them are
invisible to Winimage, NTRawrite, and Nero Burning ROM.
How can I extract it for use, or can it be added to
your mirrors? A Smart Bootmanager CD would be great
for people who have computers without floppy drives.

[Robert J Townley]

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Just so everyone knows, SysRescCD.org does this and i
believe it uses Smart BootManager.

[Michael Schierl]

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you can install sbm to a virtual floppy (in linux use
losetup, in Windows use vfd from http://
chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html). Using this
image as a boot image for a CD worked for me (if it does
not work, use mkisofs and burn the ISO afterwards).

You can as well take the image and cut away everything but
the first 23K of it and then use isolinux+memdisk or
cdshell as a boot loader on that CD.

btw sysresccd.org (0.2.19) definitely does NOT use smart
boot maager, this is just isolinux.

BTW cdshell has more features, it can for example boot
BartPE and Linux from the same CD (if you get both small
enough).

[Robert J Townley]

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schierlm,

thanks for the info about the virtual flopplies.

SysRescCD.org does indeed use ISOLinux, but when you use
the initial SysRescCD menuing system to choose to have it
boot from a particular harddrive, that is when SBM kicks
in.

[Michael Schierl]

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Hmm? Then we must have two different versions of it :)

from isolinux/isolinux.cfg:

label disk1
localboot 0x80

label disk2
localboot 0x81

label floppy
localboot 0x00

localboot is a directive of isolinux, see http://
syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php#config