[syslinux] Looking for testers and advise about ISOLINUX within ISO 9660

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 10 09:03:00 PDT 2008


Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, Thomas,
> 
> Du (scdbackup) meintest am 08.10.08:
> 
>> I understand from the code of util/isohybrid
>> that the ISOLINUX user is supposed to produce a
>> specially enabled isolinux.bin as first step.
>> Else util/isohybrid would run into this:
> 
>> 79 if ($ibsig ne "\xfb\xc0\x78\x70") {
>> 80     die "$0: $file: bootloader is missing isolinux.bin hybrid
>> signature\n". 81   "Note: isolinux-debug.bin does not support hybrid
>> booting\n"; 82 }
> 
> Have I to make this file "isolinux.bin" manually? Or do I need some  
> special program? Or have I to copy some existent file into my *.iso  
> source?
> 
> I produce the *.iso file with "mkisofs" from the slackware package  
> "cdrtools-2.01.01a36" (or newer).
> 

It is included with Syslinux 3.72 or higher (in the core/ subdirectory.)

	-hpa




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