Problems making a bootable CDROM.

[witchy]

I need to make a bootable CD, basically a DOS Bootdisk.

I have made the disc and it boots up no problem however I cannot see any of the files that I have added to the image.

I used this tutorial......

My problem lies at Step 4, when I add files to that directory they do not show up once the disc is booted.

Is this a DOS / NTFS issue? :err:

Bootable Dos CD-Rom (single boot image) [updated! nov 4, 2002]


This will create a bootable CD-Rom using one boot image. The boot image is a sector by sector image taken from a bootable floppy. When a PC boots from floppy this is normally done from the first floppy drive, known as drive number 0 or as drive A:. So, to let the CD-Rom boot there must be some mechanism that emulates a floppy drive (drive number 0).

Using this method your PC BIOS provides the emulation for you.
If you are unsure or confused by the information on this page then this example is probably what you are looking for.

This example will use the CD-Rom boot disk.

The steps to create are:

1. If you haven't already installed BCD, please do so now.
   BCD installation instructions:
   
   Download BCD full package v1.1.1 (523KB).
   
   Or update from previous version: BCD update package (v1.1.0-v1.1.1) (5KB).
   When updating from previous versions, just extract the package over the previous version, overwrite any existing files. The bcd.cfg file will not get overwritten!
   
   Unpack the BCD package to some folder for example d:\bcd. If you want to be able to run it from a server you should unpack it to a share from where your workstations can run it. You will need to map a drive letter to that share and run bcd using that drive letter.
   Make sure you also unpack the subdirectories!
   
   Download wnaspi32.dll and copy it into BCD's d:\bcd\bin directory.
   
   I have asked Ahead Software AG if I could distribute their aspi manager with my BCD package but they said: "...due to our licence agreement you could only let your users download it freely from our web site...".
2. If you haven't already installed BFD, please do so now.
   BFD installation instructions:
   
   Please download: BFD full package v1.0.7 (1.45MB).
   
   Or update from previous versions: BFD update package (v1.0.x-v1.0.7) (410KB).
   When updating from previous versions, just extract the package over the previous version, overwrite any existing files. The bfd.cfg file will not get overwritten!
   
   Unpack BFD in the same directory as BCD, for example d:\bcd.
   If you have already unpacked BCD, then some files from BFD will overlap with files from BCD, like the nu2lic.txt and the bchoice.exe. This is no problem, just skip or overwrite them.
   Make sure you also unpack the subdirectories!
3. Download cdromsi.zip (updated Nov 4, 2002) (1KB) and unpack it into the same folder as where you have installed BCD/BFD.
4. Now you can customize things like:
   • Adding programs and files to "cds\cdromsi\files\" folder. These will appear in the root of your CD-Rom filesystem.
   • Change the file "cds\cdromsi\files\autorun.bat" you can add any commands you want, like starting some application that is located on the CD-Rom.
5. When you're done customizing, you open a command prompt, change to the BCD folder and run "bcd cdromsi" to build your ISO image and burn it to your CD writer (if you have one).