Bootable CD Utilities by reanimatolog - F.A.Q. - How to add the bootsector to a mkisofs project?

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F.A.Q. - How to add the bootsector to a mkisofs project?

How to add:

Bootsector of Bootable CD Wizard (BCDWBOOT.BIN)
Bootsector of Microsoft Windows XP/2000 (NT5BOOT.BIN or NT5BOOTM.BIN)
Bootsector of Microsoft Windows NT (NT4BOOT.BIN or NT4BOOTM.BIN)

Using mkisofs, you have to add the following options to your command line:

-b bcdwboot.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4

For example:

mkisofs -relaxed-filenames -d -D -J

-b bcdwboot.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -o mybootcd.iso ./

ATTENTION! If you are adding the original Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT bootsector (NT5BOOT.BIN or NT4BOOT.BIN) you ABSOLUTELY have to add the following option, too: -N.
Otherwise you will get the error 'CDBOOT: Couldn't find NTLDR' on startup.

For example:

mkisofs -relaxed-filenames -d -D -N -J

-b nt5boot.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -o mybootcd.iso ./