Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] Bulding a live CD

[Christoph P. <cp...@ch...>]

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Hi Thomas,

>>         - And the not so hard showstopper was: How do I get a Linux
>>           kernel/initrd/elilo/refit compilation on a cd so such my  
>> apple
>>           will boot from it when I press c during boot? Are there  
>> some
>>           instructions available or could someone tell me how to get
>>           there?
>
> could someone enlighten me howto do this?

The rEFIt ReadMe has instructions how to install rEFIt to a HFS+  
volume and bless it such that the Mac will boot from it. It also has  
a few words how to add elilo to the mix. To get the whole thing on a  
CD you have two options:

1. Make the whole CD HFS+ (like gimli's current Ubuntu Live CD). Make  
a sufficiently large disk image on the Mac, copy everything into it,  
bless the boot loader, unmount it, burn it to CD. Make sure you have  
a kernel with hfsplus compiled in.

2. Use the instructions I posted to mactel-linux-devel two days ago  
to make a CD in ISO9660 format with rEFIt, elilo and the kernel in a  
HFS+ image added as an El Torito boot image.

Hope this helps,
chrisp

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