LFS bootable CD [was re: [CLUE-Cert] Next meeting]

[Dennis J Perkins]

Lynn Danielson wrote:
> Dennis wrote:
> 
>>I've been working on a bootable CD. Hopefully, I will have it working
>>later tonight.  There are a few missing things in the hint.
> 
> 
> Very cool.  I've been reading the "Bootable LFS CD Using LILO" hint
> printout that you gave me and you're right there are a few things
> missing, but my biggest problem was that it requires starting with
> an lfs system to build the cd system from.  One of the things that
> bugged me in the linuxrc script was the pivot_root call.  I have no
> idea what this is.  According to the hint the only nonstandard thing
> in this script was the mount_cdrom call.  But there's no explanation
> of pivot_root.  Do you know what it is?  Anyway, if you can build an
> image, I'd be happy to make some copies with nice labels.
> 
> Let me know,
> 
> Lynn
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I'm still trying to get a bootable CD.  I'm not sure what's causing some 
of the problems but I recall similar problems with burning CD's for SCO 
last year.  First, the hint is incomplete and the scripts have errors. 
Another problem was that linuxrc could find echo and dd, but not mkdir. 
  I finally abandoned using PATH and just said /bin/mkdir.

I still have troubles with mkdir, however.  I'm getting inode errors 
when booting from the CD and I haven't found the cause of that yet.  It 
might be the CDs.  In my experience, the quality of blank CDs is very 
uneven, even from the same box.  Some can only be read by the same CD 
burner and others cannot be read by DVD. drives.  I wish manufacturers 
would be required to pass some reliability tests.

I might abandon the bootlfscd hint and try isolinux instead.  I would 
rather figure this out, however, if I can.