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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Trouble creating RHEL 6.5 bootable image with custom kickstart file Post 302982906 by 911Eric on Tuesday 4th of October 2016 01:59:42 PM
Old 10-04-2016
Error Trouble creating RHEL 6.5 bootable image with custom kickstart file
Hi everyone,

I have a custom kickstart file from a software vendor and I'm trying to package that with a RHEL 6.5 and then attach it to a VM and install RHEL with the settings in the kickstarter file. I'm doing this from a windows PC using an app called InfraRecorder.

I've extracted the contents of an original RHEL 6.5 ISO, placed the custom ks.cfg file in the root of the image and then I create my ISO with InfraRecorder and mount it to the VM however when I boot up the VM I keep receiving this error
Code:
ISOLINUX 4.02 2010-07-21 ETCDisolinux: Image checksum error, sorry...

For the boot sector I have placed the files isolinux.bin, boot.cat and efiboot.img.

What am I missing? Hopefully this is the right place to ask this question, I realize I'm using windows to create the image but I figured this has more to do with modifying the Linux ISO and something I'm not doing correctly. I've googled this and searched here in the forums prior to posting this and can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance!
Last edited by rbatte1; 10-05-2016 at 05:53 AM.. Reason: Added CODE tags for error message, removing other font information.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

root_archive

root_archive(1M)														  root_archive(1M)

NAME

       root_archive - manage bootable miniroot archives

SYNOPSIS

       /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive  pack  archive root

       /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive  unpack  archive root

       /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive  packmedia  solaris_image root

       /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive  unpackmedia  solaris_image root

       The  root_archive  utility is used to manage bootable miniroot archives and is currently only available on  platforms. The utility can pack
       and unpack boot/root archives in both ufs and hsfs (iso9660) format. It will always generate ufs archives.

       root_archive also uses the lofi file driver to export a file as a block device (see lofi(7D)) and mount to mount or  unmount  file  systems
       and remote resources (see mount(1M)). root_archive requires the same privileges that are needed to run these commands.

SUBCOMMANDS

       The root_archive command has the following subcommands:

       pack archive root

	   Pack from the image found under the root directory to the archive.

       unpack archive root

	   Unpack from the archive to an unpacked image under the root directory.

       packmedia solaris_image root

	   Pack the solaris image to the root directory.

       unpackmedia solaris_image root

	   Unpack the solaris image from the root directory.

       For  packmedia  and  unpackmedia,  other items that do not go into the ramdisk image are copied or uncopied (see cpio(1)) as well. Specifi-
       cally, this includes all the packaging databases needed for pkgadd and the other packaging utilities to succeed which are not used  in  the
       running and hence pruned to conserve memory.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Unpacking the Solaris x86 install image

       The following command unpacks the current Solaris image from the root directory:

       # root_archive unpackmedia 
       /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvx_dvd/latest /export/Boot

       Where  /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvx_dvd/latest  represents	a path to a Solaris x86 install image and /export/Boot is a directory that will be
       purged or created, as necessary.

       Example 2: Packing the Solaris x86 install image

       The following command packs the current Solaris image to the root directory:

       # root_archive packmedia 
       /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvx_dvd/latest /export/Boot

       The following exit values are returned:

       0

	   The command completed successfully.

       1

	   The command exited due to an error.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Stable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       cpio(1), bootadm(1M), mount(1M), attributes(5), lofi(7D)

								    26 Sep 2005 						  root_archive(1M)
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