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

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:48:18 +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote:

> 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 (?)

Some working ways to rebuild the ISO image are discussed in the 
corresponding bug report at http://bugzilla.redhat.com

Run "isodebug" on the ISO image file of the first CD. It prints the
command and options, which were used to build that ISO image (if you
don't want to use a hex editor to find that out). There is no difference
in command and options compared with FC 2 Test 1, which was working fine.