[syslinux] Re: Failure with 1st isolinux attempt

Jim Wright jwright at penguincomputing.com
Sun Apr 7 17:28:49 PDT 2002


Here's an example command line.  -l and -r ought to fix it for you.

mkisofs \
    -o /my-cdrom.iso \
    -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
    -c isolinux/boot.cat \
    -no-emul-boot \
    -boot-load-size 4 \
    -boot-info-table \
    -r \
    -l \
    -L \
    /lfs

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Dermot Bradley wrote:

> > Would you mind to list your isolinux directory
> 
> ls -l /lfs/isolinux (/lfs is the "root" of the directory tree used to
> build the CD from)
> 
>   total 860
>   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8552 Apr  7 13:19 isolinux.bin
>   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          170 Apr  7 13:14 isolinux.cfg
>   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       858687 Apr  6 18:31 lfskernel
> 
> after mounting the cd itself:
> 
> ls -l /cdrom/isolinux
> total 850
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2048 Apr  7 13:19 boot.cat
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         8552 Apr  7 13:17 isolinux.bin
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root          170 Apr  7 13:14 isolinux.cfg
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       858687 Apr  6 18:31 lfskerne
> 
> D'oh! Just spotted that the kernel name has been truncated.......guess
> that's why the isolinux.cfg couldn't find it.....




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