fai-cd -B gives an error

[Werner.Pommerer at uni-hohenheim.de]

Thank you. I am very interested. Could you explain in more detail for me?

Werner
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   Datum: Tue, 27 May 2014 07:14:42 -0700
     Von: Bob Apodaca <bob at phxlab.honeywell.com>
Betreff: Re: fai-cd -B gives an error
      An: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de


> On 05/26/2014 05:25 AM, Werner Pommerer wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to create a boot only ISO image which does a network  
>> installation.
>>
>> fai-cd -B /tmp/test.iso
>>
>> NFSROOT /srv/fai/nfsroot   mounted
>>
>> Found dracut inside nfsroot, but booting a FAI CD with dracut  
>> inside the nfsrroot does not yet work.
>>
>> Using grub2
>>
>> preparing grub2 eltorito.img using existing core.img from NFSROOT
>>
>> no memtest86+.bin found, omit memtest boot option
>>
>> Writing FAI CD-ROM image to /tmp/test.iso. This may need some time.
>>
>> re-directing all messages to /dev/null
>>
>> ERROR: genisoimage failed.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas what might be going wrong?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Werner Pommerer
>>
>>
> I have created a bootable CD-ROM using GRUB, but I do not use  
> fai-cd.  I only use the CD-ROM to boot the kernel and load the  
> initrd, after those steps the system boots using NFS. I have also  
> successfully used a similar process to boot from a USB "thumb"  
> drive. If this set-up would help you I can attempt to explain how to  
> create your own.
>
> Bob


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