make-fai-bootfloppy on cdrom

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Thu Aug 28 17:02:54 CEST 2003



>>>>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:55:25 +0200, Thomas Delaet <thomas_delaet at myrealbox.com> said:


> I wanted to do a FAI on a computer which has no floppy drive to boot from.
> So I created the floppy image with make-fai-bootfloppy and converted it with 
> the following command to a bootable CDROM image :
> mkisofs -r -b boot/boot.img -c boot/boot.catalog -o bootcd.iso .

> However, when trying to boot with the cdrom image I got the following message 
> after passing the GRUB menu :

> "Error 29: Disk write error"
I think it's the command "savedefault" in the grub menu.
Create the floppy again and edit the grub menu.lst file and remove
these lines. Then try again.

-- 
regards Thomas



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