Thanks. I will try these steps. I used livecd-iso-to-disk to make a stick that booted a box for me, but that box has other issues, so I need to try again.
There was a certain amount of trial-and-error in order to get the stick into a state that livecd-iso-to-disk would work on it. One more question (for now): Does the --standalone option make a self-contained iso, thus eliminating the need to download anything from the Cobbler Server ? On Nov 22, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Alex L. wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Dan White wrote: >> Did anyone ever come up with a reliable recipe for making a bootable >> USB-stick from a generated.iso ? > > try the following out and let me know how relieable it is :) > > Let's assume you have your USB-stick on "/dev/sdb" and you have "syslinux" >> = 3.0 installed on your Linux box, then: > > (1) by using "fdisk /dev/sdb" make sure you create a bootable FAT > partition "/dev/sdb1" > > (2) create new fat filesystem on the USB stick by using > "mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1" > > (3) setup the bootloader by executing "syslinux /dev/sdb1" > > (4) create your buildiso "cobbler buildiso --systems='host.domain.net'" > > (5) step 4 should have created beside the "generated.iso" file also a > "buildiso" directory; copy the created files from "buildiso/isolinux/*" to > "/dev/sdb1" (mount it) > > (6) rename the "isolinux.cfg" on "/dev/sdb1" to "syslinux.cfg" > > (7) umount "/dev/sdb1" and try to boot with the USB-stick, just don't > forget to disconnect it on time if you are using "clearpart" in your > kickstart file. > >> If so, I could use it. > > Hope that helps, > > best regards, > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
