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
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