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mkisofs not found
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:54 pm
by 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?
Re: mkisofs not found
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:09 pm
by Candy
ubergeek wrote: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)?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:26 pm
by 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.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:46 pm
by nick8325
I think Ubuntu might use genisoimage instead of mkisofs. It has the same command-line options, so try running "genisoimage ..." instead of "mkisofs ...".
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:26 pm
by 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):
and everything should work. If it doesn't, feel free to hit me.
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:11 am
by ubergeek
Thanks.