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| Started by | David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> |
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| First post | 2017-03-12 02:30 +0100 |
| Last post | 2017-03-12 09:00 +0100 |
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isolinux.bin missing or corrupt David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-12 02:30 +0100
Re: isolinux.bin missing or corrupt Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-03-12 03:20 +0100
Re: isolinux.bin missing or corrupt "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-03-12 09:00 +0100
| From | David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> |
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| Date | 2017-03-12 02:30 +0100 |
| Subject | isolinux.bin missing or corrupt |
| Message-ID | <tk0uB-2J5-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
debian-user:
I have two older computers with Intel D865GBFLK motherboards (~2003) and
Pentium 4 HT CPU's. They both have the latest available BIOS installed.
I would like to put Debian on them.
I have downloaded:
debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso
When I put the ISO on a CD-R, it boots correctly.
When I put the ISO on a USB flash drive and boot it:
isolinux.bin missing or corrupt
The same USB flash drive boots correctly in newer computers.
Memtest86+ 5.01 on a USB flash drive boots correctly in the older computers.
My conclusion is that the ISO is not compatible with the BIOS in the
older computers.
I would like to file a Debian bug report. Which is the relevant package?
David
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| From | Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> |
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| Date | 2017-03-12 03:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <tk1h0-3eX-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #178700 |
David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > When I put the ISO on a USB flash drive and boot it: > isolinux.bin missing or corrupt How did you put the ISO on the flash drive? Did you use dd or cat or cp or some program like unetbootin? Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
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| From | "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> |
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| Date | 2017-03-12 09:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <tk6A1-6Mu-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #178700 |
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > I would like to file a Debian bug report. Which is the relevant package? The ISOs are made by package "debian-cd". The failing isohybrid feature depends on MBR file isohdpfx.bin from "syslinux-utils" and on file isolinux.bin from "isolinux". The connection between the MBR file isohdpfx.bin and El Torito boot image isolinux.bin is made by xorriso from "xorriso". The error message stems from the MBR code and indicates that the USB stick was accepted as bootable device but the MBR code did not find isolinux.bin or did not accept the code blob in there. The MBR code learned the 512-byte block address of isolinux.bin when the ISO was created. This number is stored at bytes 432 to 435 of the ISO image. In debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso of today the block number is 8444 which matches the 2048-block address of isolinux.bin which is 2111. So at least the pointer from MBR to isolinux.bin is installed correctly. This matches the observation that other systems find and start isolinux.bin. So it seems futile for now to report against "xorriso". "debian-cd" will hardly be to blame for the same reason. "isolinux" et.al. is quite orphaned at upstream. So its maintainers will probably have nobody with whom they could discuss the problem. Whatever, "debian-cd" should be interested in knowing which hardware or firmware is not ready for isohybrid booting. Have a nice day :) Thomas
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