Re: xorriso (& genisoimage) missing various eltorito options.

Hi Thomas, thank you very much for your message.

Hopefully it will help Bruno, et al, going forwards.

In the mean time, being on Debian myself, probably not?


On 06/03/2017 02:34 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i am the developer of xorriso and apologize for not having a message id
> to refer to by this reply.
> 
> B.S. wrote:
>> Looks like xorriso has lost various eltorito options, preventing iso
>> generation.
>> ...
>> xorriso : FAILURE : -as mkisofs: Unrecognized option '-eltorito-platform'
> 
> This option is relatively young in mkisofs. It was introduced after the
> fork of genisoimage and after xorriso got defined its set of mkisofs
> emulation options.
> 
> genisoimage from upstream cdrkit does not support EFI booting at all.
> But Fedora's enhanced genisoimage got option -e for EFI boot images.
> xorriso -as mkisofs supports -e too.
> 
> So for xorriso and Fedora's genisoimage one would replace the mkisofs
> gesture
> 
>   -eltorito-platform 0xEF -eltorito-boot images/mindi-bootroot.img
>   -no-emul-boot
> 
> by
> 
>   -e images/mindi-bootroot.img -no-emul-boot

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