Re: Bad symlinks with CD-RW's
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> On Jul 03 2000, erik wrote:
> > mkisofs -f -J -T -r -l -V EFILinux_2.2 -P EFI-Systems -b boot/rescue.bin \
> > -c boot.catalog -o /disks/EFI-image/EFI-1.0-i386.raw /disks/EFI;
>
> I normally use only the -r -J options when I'm creating my
> disks and everything works fine. I'm using the mkisofs that
> comes with potato.
hmmm, well I guess I _could_ cut down on the options somewhat - but I
would like them to be as compatible with other OS's as possible, hence
e.g. the -T ... I plan to give them to other people to use.
> I guess that the problem is the -f option (I just read its
> description now), but I've never used it before so I don't
> know better.
-as far as I can tell at this point this one does something like a hard
link to the directory in the resulting image... very confusing option
> Also, all my bootable disks work just fine with the -b and -c
> options.
-so one would think... I'm getting some very strange results here I know.
> BTW, you didn't mention it in your first e-mail, but you
> actually test the CD using the loopback feature of the kernel,
> right? If not, then it is an excellent money saver.
...yeah, although I did fry a couple first just for kicks... 8^/.
> > This one actually makes an unbootable CD that has an empty
> > binary-i386 directory. Removing the -r makes every file executable,
> > including the empty links which don't go anywhere.
> >
> > any clues?
>
> Let us know what happens.
Actually, I discovered last night that if I removed *one* of the links -
specifically "binary-all -> binary-i386" I could get it to work. This is
still a mystery to me as I have symbolic links to directories both above
and below this level... but the "debian -> . " in the root of the disk
still eludes me and by now I'm a bit burnt on the proccess so I think I'll
just leave it for a bit now.
Thanks for the thoughts,
erik
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