Bug 90392
| Summary: | mkbootdisk does not support ISO file system | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | Boris Mironov <bmironov> |
| Component: | mkbootdisk | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | ||
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-10-09 22:52:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
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--iso is not a valid option in 1.4.2-3 (see mkbootdisk --help) |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: mkbootdisk does not support ISO images. That is "have to have" feature for Advanced Server recovery process because image is bigger than regular floppy disk. Especially when it is available for Linux Red Hat 8.0 Please promote newer rmp to "advance Server" tree with following fix for v1.4.8: *** mkbootdisk.orig 2002-11-05 01:09:04.000000000 -0500 --- mkbootdisk 2002-11-06 14:41:05.000000000 -0500 *************** *** 3,8 **** --- 3,10 ---- # mkbootdisk # # Written by Erik Troan + # + # Additions by Micah Silverman pause=yes unset kernel *************** *** 247,252 **** --- 249,259 ---- [ -n "$verbose" ] && echo "done." if [ -n "$isoimage" ]; then + # additions by Micah Silverman start + mkdir $MOUNTDIR/boot + cp -p -r /boot/* $MOUNTDIR/boot + # additions by Micah Silverman end + mkisofs \ -A "Red Hat Linux Boot CD" \ -V "Red Hat Linux Boot CD" \ Best regards, Boris Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.4.2-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkbootdisk --device bootcd.iso --iso 2.4.9-e.14smp Actual Results: Does not support ISO-image Expected Results: Administrator should be able to create bootable disk for system recovery Additional info: