<div>On 5/5/07, Tomoki Taniguchi <<a href="mailto:tomoki.taniguchi@gmail.com">tomoki.taniguchi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I created an ISO image file using mkisofs mkisofs -o recovery-dvd.iso /edited-cd-file-dir i mounted this under vmware player. but the image file doesn't seem to be a bootable image. the root dir of the cd contains two files i feel are some how related to the issue BOOTCTG.BIN: data BOOTIMG.BIN: DOS floppy 1440k, x86 hard disk boot sector what options do i need to include in the mkisofs command to to make the image file bootable? </blockquote></div> Hi Tomoki, Since you want to make an image of your entire disk, including the boot sector, I think you're better off with the "dd" command that the others sent to you. The difference is that the mkisofs command makes an image from the files contained on the CD and the dd command makes an image of the device. I don't know all of the details of how this works, but the part that makes a CD bootable doesn't show up as a file. I think that dd will get the bootable stuff as well as the files. mkisofs does have a way to make a bootable image, but I don't think it would be the same bootable image that the CD currently has. You can play with it if you want to, then post your results here :) The details are in the man page. Just search for the word boot. -- Vince