Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stelian Iancu wrote: Today once I got back to work I wanted to recreate the bad iso for you to test. So I have created a new fresh VM with Debian 7.3.0 (and xorriso 1.2.2) and this time it worked flawlessly. That's much better than if it would work for me but not for you. Note (again),

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Stelian Iancu
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:

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Stelian Iancu
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, Hi, please see below. i am the developer of xorriso and always interested in learning about problems. However, after writing it to a USB stick, it doesn't boot, and I don't know why. What kind of machine

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Stelian Iancu
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Stelian Iancu stel...@iancu.ch wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, Hi, please see below. i am the developer of xorriso and always interested in learning about problems. However, after writing it to

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, first question because i am lacking other valid ideas: Does your machine boot the original netinst ISO from USB stick ? Second question: How large is your result image ? Can you upload it to a place from where i could get it for inspection ? For the details: /root/debian/test.iso1 * 1

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Stelian Iancu
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, Hi Thomas, See my previous mail. Made it work with xorriso 1.3.4. Do you still want me to go ahead and do what you wrote below? Thanks! S. first question because i am lacking other valid ideas: Does your

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, In the end, I went ahead and manually compiled xorriso 1.3.4 and with this one and the command that Debian itself uses to create the netinst iso it worked (without the jigdo stuff). The resulting iso is bootable from the USB key. From my remote position i would say that your firmware

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Stelian Iancu
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, In the end, I went ahead and manually compiled xorriso 1.3.4 and with this one and the command that Debian itself uses to create the netinst iso it worked (without the jigdo stuff). The resulting iso is

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, See my previous mail. Made it work with xorriso 1.3.4. Do you still want me to go ahead and do what you wrote below? We could be curious and leave out the options -eltorito-alt-boot -e boot/grub/efi.img -no-emul-boot -isohybrid-gpt-basdat If my theory about the need for GPT and EFI is

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, See my previous mail. Made it work with xorriso 1.3.4. Do you still want me to go ahead and do what you wrote below? We could be curious and leave out the options -eltorito-alt-boot -e boot/grub/efi.img -no-emul-boot -isohybrid-gpt-basdat Correcting myself: Option

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Stelian Iancu
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, See my previous mail. Made it work with xorriso 1.3.4. Do you still want me to go ahead and do what you wrote below? We could be curious and leave out the options -eltorito-alt-boot -e boot/grub/efi.img

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, which basically left me with the original command and, surprise, it worked! That's quite surprising. There is no corresponding bug fix to see in my ChangeLog. (... and i cannot remember either ...) Although xorriso-1.2.2 is outdated, it would still be good to know how i accidently fixed

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-16 Thread Brian
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

Re: Problem creating iso for a USB stick

2014-01-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am the developer of xorriso and always interested in learning about problems. However, after writing it to a USB stick, it doesn't boot, and I don't know why. What kind of machine do you use ? What kind of firmware does it have: PC-BIOS , UEFI, ... ? How far does it get with booting ?