[Udpcast] Boot problem with custom ISO...

[Richard Whittaker]

Try number 2... Smaller image this time..


Hiya..

I've built a custom ISO image to boot our HP DL360 servers to image
them. I've done this, because none of the images I've seen so far have
support for the HP/Compaq SmartArray 5i. I belive I've done everything
correctly, but I get a boot failure off the CD... Everything SEEMS to go
fine, and then I get an error relating to INITRD and the RAMDisk. I'm
using a custom 2.6.8 kernel with RAMDisk and ROMFS support compiled in.

wh-lnxdb1:~/cdimage # ls -l
total 5104
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 27 12:13 .
drwx------   13 root     root         4096 Aug 27 12:12 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      3484482 Aug 27 12:13 INITRD
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        15324 Aug 27 11:40 ISOLINUX.BIN
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           80 Aug 27 11:01 ISOLINUX.CFG
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1696890 Aug 27 11:40 LINUX
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         2048 Aug 27 11:01 boot.catalog
wh-lnxdb1:~/cdimage # cat ISOLINUX.CFG
default linux
label linux
   kernel LINUX
   append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=INITRD
wh-lnxdb1:~/cdimage # mkisofs -o /root/udpcast.iso -b ISOLINUX.BIN -c
boot.catalog -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table /root/cdimage

Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 4000
2592 extents written (5 Mb)
wh-lnxdb1:~/cdimage #

Please see attached image for the error I'm getting..

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?..

Thanks,
Richard.

-- 
Richard Whittaker, CISSP
System Manager,
NorthwesTel Inc.


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