Thanks for reply! On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > > I got an "Invalid or corrupt kernel" message, but I don't understand why. > > The ISOLINUX boot image /isolinux/isolinux.bin contains a text: > "Invalid or corrupt kernel image." > > If that appears then initial booting from the ISO image worked. > But obviously the booted loader cannot go on with booting the > desired operating system. > > So the problem is not about the way how the ISO image was made bootable > by mkisofs, genisoimage or xorriso. > It is rather about the operating system files which are stored in the > directory tree which you extracted from the ISO image. > > > > Seems like that there has something changed with Squeeze? > > The amd64 netinstall image got packed up by xorriso rather than > genisoimage. > During the transition there were problems reported about bsdtar and > xorriso images. But we solved them, afaik. > (Debian Bugs 610781 610783) > Yes, it seems like that I've found them too :-) > > Maybe it helps if you replace > bsdtar -C ~/netinstaller6/cd -xf > ~/netinstaller/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso > by > cd ~/netinstaller6 > mkdir cd > su > mount -o loop ./debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso ./cd > > (and later umount ./cd when you are done) > Yes, i know. But I've searched for a single shot solution :-) > > > If there is a difference in success, then one should compare the > mounted ISO image tree with the file tree extracted by bsdtar. > > In that case the problem has to be diagnosed by the developers > of libarchive and me, as developer of xorriso. > > I've tested it with the mounted way, the vmlinuz image is shown correct. I guess when I copy the content, it will be correct: 15:24 root@HighwayToHell:~/netinstaller6/test/install.amd# file vmlinuz vmlinuz: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (unknown@Debian), RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA > > Have a nice day :) > Thanks! By the way, xorriso looks interesting! Regards Mario -- http://www.n0r1sk.com
