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Making a CD-ROM bootable from SRM

Get a running Alpha system with 'aboot' package installed and a loop device support (integral or as a module - does not matter). Here is how:

  • create a directory on which you will mount, say /tmp/img
  • mount this image like this:
    mount -o loop redhat-6.0.axp.iso /tmp/img
  • type 'mount' to see which device is really used; probably /dev/loop0 but it maybe higher if 'loop' was in use before
  • check ('ls') if 'bootlx' file is on the mounted image; probably it will be in /tmp/img/boot/bootlx but it does not matter where as long as it is somewhere; if nowhere in sight you are screwed and find another image somewhere else or make yourself one with 'mkisofs' - you have most files already in a filesystem just mounted - copy to a writable file system, clean TRANS.TBL files, add, recreate
  • type
    isomarkboot /dev/loop0 boot/bootlx
    (use, of course, "real" loop device and bootlx location)
  • umount /tmp/img ; rmdir /tmp/img
  • you are done and you can blast that on a CD.