[syslinux] isolinux 2.0+ won't boot from DVD

Taylor, ForrestX forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Thu Jun 19 12:07:12 PDT 2003


Well, I have some more information and I have narrowed down the scope a 
bit.  Of course, this may all be a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, 
but this is what I have deduced...

In the iso image, I have several directories, including RedHat/RPMS and 
SRPMS.
The RedHat/RPMS contains the rpm files, and the SRPMS contains the 
src.rpm files.  When I remove the SRPMS directory, isolinux will boot. 
If I remove the corresponding rpm file, I can put the src.rpm file in 
the SRPMS directory and it will boot.  It seems that isolinux-2.0x is 
confused when I have an rpm file and it's src.rpm file.  E.g., if I have 
RedHat/RPMS/autofs-4.0.0pre10.9-1.i386.rpm and 
SRPMS/autofs-4.0.0pre10.9-1.src.rpm, isolinux-2.00 will not boot.

When I mount the resultant iso image with -o loop,norock,nojoliet the 
files look like this:

[root at blah temp]# la temp/redhat/rpms/autofs_4_0_0pre10_9_1_i386.rpm
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        69964 Apr 14 13:15 
temp/redhat/rpms/autofs_4_0_0pre10_9_1_i386.rpm

[root at blah temp]# la temp/srpms/autofs_4_0_0pre10_9_1_src.rpm
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        95147 Apr 18 15:44 
temp/srpms/autofs_4_0_0pre10_9_1_src.rpm

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Forrest
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