btx crashes when booting 6.1 from usb cdrom

[Miroslav Lachman]

Stephen Clark wrote:

[...]
>> 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?

Many files are hardlinked on the original media (for example all in 
/rescue is hardlink to one binary), but tar makes a copy of each file.

Miroslav Lachman