Thu 08 Mar 2007 07:06:12 AM UTC, original submission:
Hi
I have received a couple of bug reports for ISO Master saying that the ISOs it writes aren't bootable. After looking at it for a while I've decided the thing that's most likely at fault has something to do with GRUB. The CDs are FC-6-i386-livecd-1.iso and NimbleX-2007.iso
Both start to boot but hang. Fedora prints this:
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Loading stage2 ....
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And NimbleX prints this:
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Loading stage1.5 .
GRUB loading, please wait...
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Both hang there unresponsive, cursor doesn't blink, the keyboard doesn't seem to work at all.
I compared the original ISOs with the edited ones. They are exactly the same except for the location of the boot file in the boot info table (that's in the stage2_eltorito file) which needs to be changed so that the BIOS will find it.
Please help me find the problem. I have no idea what version GRUB is on either of those but both distros are available online you can take a look:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/projects/live/
http://www.nimblex.net/
If you care to see the problem for yourself, please download this version of iso master: http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster/releases/isomaster-0.8-rc1.tar.bz2
But I'll post any file here if it may help figure out what's wrong.
Thanks in advance, I appreciate your time.
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