Creating Boot Disks

[Dunna]

Does anyone know how I might go about creating my own bootable CD's? I don't mean Windows bootable, I mean I would write the code in whatever language suits me, burn it to a disk, and be able to boot from it. I have often written CD images to CDs and been able to boot from them for one purpose or another, and have always wondered what writing code like this would entail. I would appreciate it if anyone would point me in the right direction or provide any use ful information (language to use, waste of your time, etc...)

Thanks in advance, dunna.

[Unit]

Booting from CDs is similar to booting from a floppy.

The following page has information about the specification of bootable CDs
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#whatis

The boot sector used to boot from CD is similar to the boot sector used to boot from floppy. To write this boot sector, you will need to use assembly language.

I suggest you try and get a boot sector written by someone to work first before attempting to write your own.

ex: http://kos.enix.org/pub/bootwrit.html

These pointers should be enough for a start. Let us know how far you get with this :thumbsup:

[Dunna]

:thumbsup: Nice links! The first one was the best. I do know assembly but I really don't get the second link very much. No matter, the first link should be enough. Thanks again!