Rebuilt iso boots (was: Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

sean bruno sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Fri Apr 9 17:51:31 UTC 2004


Beat me to it eh?  Good job...

Does anyone at REDHAT/FEDORA wish to comment on this before FC2T3 is
released?

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:48, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I just made a new iso image from FC2test2-CD1:
> 
> cp -a /mnt/cdrom/ /home/cap/fc2/
> cd /home/cap/fc2/cdrom
> mkisofs -r -T -J -V 'FC2test2-CD1' -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 20 -boot-info-table -l -R -o /home/cap/FC2test2-CD1.iso .
> 
> I didn't change anything - not even the isolinux.bin.
> The new image is 15megs bigger...
> 
> The new image booted just fine and I ended up at the anaconda
> welcome screen...
> So I assume that the way the original iso image is created is
> the reason for the boot problems on some machines (?)
> 
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
> 





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