Make bootable CDROM.

From: JXL (jamesli_at_abc.com)
Date: 08/23/03


Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:04:21 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have to create a bootable CD-ROM for our embedded Linux system.
I followed the steps as documented in the following link

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO

However the boot procedure always fails when the kernel tries to mount its
root system. The kernel reported the error code -30 which indicates
that the reason for the failure is that the CD-ROM is read-only.

How can I pass a writable root file system to the Linux kernel?
Is there way to let Linux kernel to use a read-only file system?

Any help and tips will be greatly appreciated

James X. Li



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