On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 16 Jan 2014 at 16:02:00 +0100, Stelian Iancu wrote:
>
> > I am trying to create a USB stick with Wheezy which would auto-install.
> > I've managed to create the iso successfully following the instructions
> > here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso
> >
> > I've checked the resulting iso with vmware fusion on my mac and it works,
> > i.e. it auto-installs Debian successfull.
> >
> > However, after writing it to a USB stick, it doesn't boot, and I don't
> know
> > why.
>
> What is the output of
>
> fdisk -l <your_ISO> ?
>
It is this:
fdisk -l test.iso
GNU Fdisk 1.2.4
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
Disk /root/debian/test.iso: 263 MB, 263192576 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 251 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/root/debian/test.iso1 * 1 251 257008 17 Hidd
HPFS/NTFS
I have no idea why it's HPFS/NTFS.
> > The command I used to create the iso is as follows:
> >
> > xorriso -as mkisofs -D -r -J -joliet-long -L -A "Custom Install CD" -b
> > isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -iso-level 3 -no-emul-boot
> > -partition_offset 16 -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o ../test.iso
> > -isohybrid-mbr /usr/lib/syslinux/isohdpfx.bin ../cd
> >
> > Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Not really (learning to use xorriso is on my to-do list) but the Debian
> images have the command used for their creation in the mkisofs file in
> .disk. You could also try the isohybrid command, which comes with the
> syslinux package.
>
I just tried the isohybrid command and it didn't help. After dd'ing the
resulting iso to the USB drive, it still won't boot.
It's funny you mention the mkisofs from .disk. By some sort of a miracle,
I've found it as well. It looks like this:
/home/93sam/xorriso -as mkisofs -r -checksum_algorithm_iso
md5,sha1,sha256,sha512 -V 'Debian 7.3.0 amd64 1' -o /org/
cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb-cd/out/2amd64/debian-7.3.0-amd64-NETINST-1.iso-jigdo-jigdo
/org/
cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb-cd/out/2amd64/debian-7.3.0-amd64-NETINST-1.jigdo-jigdo-template
/org/
cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb-cd/out/2amd64/debian-7.3.0-amd64-NETINST-1.template-jigdo-map
Debian=/org/
cdbuilder.debian.org/src/ftp/debian/ -jigdo-exclude boot1 -md5-list /org/
cdbuilder.debian.org/src/deb-cd/tmp/2amd64/wheezy/md5-check-jigdo-min-file-size
1024 -jigdo-exclude 'README*' -jigdo-exclude /doc/
-jigdo-exclude /md5sum.txt -jigdo-exclude /.disk/ -jigdo-exclude /pics/
-jigdo-exclude 'Release*' -jigdo-exclude 'Packages*' -jigdo-exclude
'Sources*' -J -isohybrid-mbr syslinux/usr/lib/syslinux/isohdpfx.bin -J
-joliet-long -cache-inodes -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c
isolinux/boot.cat-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table
-eltorito-alt-boot -e
boot/grub/efi.img -no-emul-boot -isohybrid-gpt-basdat
-isohybrid-apm-hfsplus boot1 CD1
After removing all the jigdo related options, I've tried the resulting
command and it didn't work. It gave me an error related to
-isohybrid-gpt-basdat. Upon further investigation, I found out that the
version of xorriso that is in Wheezy is older (1.2.2) and apparently
doesn't support this option. The current version is 1.3.4. Also, as you can
see, they use a manually compiled xorriso, I would assume:
/home/93sam/xorriso.
So I guess I will try to compile xorriso manually and try, again, with the
Debian command (without the jigdo options).
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