[syslinux] Bug#587150: #587150: d-i netinst cd doesn't boot, isolinux error: further investigation

Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com
Sun Jun 27 05:08:20 PDT 2010


On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:23:22PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
>On 06/27/2010 05:59 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> By the way, is there any reason Debian isn't using isohybrid?
>
>we're using isohybrid for the live images since about 7 months already
>(including squeeze alpha1 release) and our tools to create live images
>defaults to isohybrid on amd64 and i386, however, the non-live images
>are done by another team which has not yet incorporated it.

It's on my todo list to use it, but really we need to integrate it
into genisoimage or similar - see my post to the list a few weeks
back. We generate jigdo images on the fly as we make the ISO images,
so post-processing isn't really an option.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
"I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of
 course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds




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