mkisofs not found

[ubergeek]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a GRUB (legacy) bootable cdrom image. I followed the instructions in the GRUB manual, but it says that it can't find mkisofs. Any ideas?

[Candy]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a GRUB (legacy) bootable cdrom image. I followed the instructions in the GRUB manual, but it says that it can't find mkisofs. Any ideas?

Are you using Windows or Linux (or something else)?

[ubergeek]

I'm using Ubuntu Linux 7.10. GRUB 0.97.

The exact code I'm using (from my build.sh file) is:

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mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o grub.iso iso

(I have a folder, iso, with a folder, boot, with a folder, grub, with stage2_eltorito in it.) I took the above code from the GRUB manual.

[nick8325]

I think Ubuntu might use genisoimage instead of mkisofs. It has the same command-line options, so try running "genisoimage ..." instead of "mkisofs ...".

[JackScott]

Ubuntu is similar to Debian in it's handling of this issue.

genisoimage is indeed the Debian/Ubuntu command for building a .iso image. However, mkisofs is also provided as a package that depends on genisoimage, and maps mkisofs onto genisoimage.

To download everything you'll need, type (as root):

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apt-get install mkisofs

and everything should work. If it doesn't, feel free to hit me.

[ubergeek]

Thanks.