[lug] "boot floppy" CD creation recommendations

[David L. Anselmi]

Bear Giles wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to create a "boot floppy" CD.  By that I 
> mean a 1.44MB image that I can put into the 'el Torino' boot sector and 
> boot straight to the HD, same as the floppy rescue disk.

You don't really need to boot (load the kernel) off the CD.  All you 
need is a boot sector that loads LILO that points to the hard drive. 
With a floppy that's as easy as telling lilo boot=/dev/fd0.

I don't see anything obvious about doing a CD like that (maybe GRUB has 
something to run from CD, I didn't look for that).  But that's all you need.

But there's plenty of info about using ISOLINUX to do what you want. 
And you can use any bootable CD as an example.  Just take their config 
etc. and edit it to suit and burn it back out.

I've used ISOLINUX CDs as examples for building PXELINUX configs. 
They're very similar and not too hard.

Dave