btx crashes when booting 6.1 from usb cdrom

[Stephen Clark]

Konstantin Belousov wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:21:05AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello List,
>>
>>When I boot linux from my usb cdrom it works great 
>>- but when I try the
>>6.1 release media
>>it fails - BTX crashes.
>>
>>I found a listed bug kern/85257 that seems to be 
>>the same problem. Had
>>this been resolved?
>>Will it be resolved?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Steve
>>    
>>
>
>If you could build custom boot images, try
>http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx
>realbtx.2.patch is the patch, and loader is the /boot/loader built with that
>patch applied. If you could rearrange CD image with that loader put into
>/boot, then try to load from it and report results.
>
>CAUTION: Do not install boot2 or loader on your harddrive, code had very
>little exposure and may cause you machine to become unbootable.
>
>  
>
Hi Konstantin,

Thanks this worked. I have another question though. I mounted the distro 
1 cd and
cd to /cdrom and did
tar cSf - . |(cd /usr/myboot;tar xSf -)
so I could move in the new loader program. The problem is I ended up with an
iso file system after I did
mkisofs -R -no-emul-boot -b boot/cdboot -o /tmp/bootable.iso /usr/myboot
that was 991mb which was to big to put on a CD. Where did I go wrong?

Since this was only a test I rm'ed packages, rescue and release 
directories, but how did it all
fit on the CD originally?

Thanks,
Steve

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