Re: Create an UEFI-Bootable ISO-Image

Daniel Spannbauer <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Oct 2017 11:17:48 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.autoinstall
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Am 10/05/2017 um 11:15 AM schrieb Johannes Meixner:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Oct 5 00:11 Andrew Daugherity wrote (excerpt):
>>> On Oct 4, 2017, at 9:33 AM, Daniel Spannbauer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> ... how do I generate a UEFI Iso-Image on Leap? genisoimage
>>> seems to lack the parameter --eltorito-boot
>
> cf.
> https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/588
> in particular
> https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/588#issuecomment-102496028
> and
> https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/588#issuecomment-152813787
> and follow the links therein.
> In particular see
> https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/214
> that points to
> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811636
> which explains that the final reason behind are legal issues
> as far as I understand
> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811636#c4
>
>> You need to use mkisofs (the original one by Joerg Schilling)
>> instead of genisoimage; it?s in the Leap OSS repos (but sadly
>> not in SLES, although you can grab it from OBS and/or rebuild
>> the .src.rpm).
>
> Alternatively for newer SLE12 we provide "ebiso", cf
> https://github.com/gozora/ebiso
> but we provide "ebiso" only via the SLE-HA extension.
> You can also get "ebiso" from the openSUSE Build Servce.
> See
> http://www.it3.be/2015/10/27/uefi-iso-boot-with-ebiso/
> and/or
> https://github.com/gozora/ebiso/blob/master/README.md
> how to use "ebiso"
>
> Or alternatively you may try "mksusecd" which is SUSE's
> own tool to create the SUSE Linux installation ISOs.
> "mksusecd" is available from the openSUSE Build Servce.
> I guess with "mksusecd" you get 100% SUSE-compatible ISOs.
>

Hello Johannes,

until now I used the y2mkiso from the yast2-product-creater. Is there a
major difference between them? Or is the result the same?

Regards

Daniel


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