Mondo/mindi creating unbootable ISOs

[Craig E Johnson]

When attempting to boot/restore from the image(s), I get:

ISOLINUX 3.82 3.82 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H. Peter Anvin et al
Could not find kernel image: linux
boot:

Info from source server:

# uname -a
Linux j700s014 3.0.101-0.47.52-default #1 SMP Thu Mar 26 10:55:49 UTC 2015 (0e3c7c8) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# rpm -qa | grep -i mondo
perl-MondoRescue-3.2.2-1.sles11
mondo-3.2.2-1.sles11
# rpm -qa | grep -i mindi
mindi-busybox-1.21.1-1.sles11
mindi-3.0.2-1.sles11

[Craig E Johnson]

My gzipped mondoarchive.log file is 4.7MB and I can't attach/upload it. Help.

[Bruno Cornec]

Try compressing it with bzip2/xy and send it by mail to me if you still can not attach it here.

[Craig E Johnson]

Done. Please check e-mail. Here is some more info from the boot ISO itself. I mounted it at /mnt on a Linux server so I can poke around. It looks pretty good to me. Doesn't work though!:

s091s012:/mnt/syslinux # ll /mnt
total 46397
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root     2048 Jun  4 02:39 archives
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root     1717 Jun  4 02:39 autorun
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root     2048 Jun  4 02:39 images
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 43520695 Jun  4 02:39 initrd.img
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    15278 Jun  4 04:39 ldlinux.sys
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root     2048 Jun  4 02:39 syslinux
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root     2048 Jun  4 02:39 tmp
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  3963680 Jun  4 02:39 vmlinuz

s091s012:/mnt/syslinux # cat syslinux.cfg
prompt 1
display message.txt
F1 message.txt
F2 boot1.txt
F3 boot2.txt
F4 pxe.txt
default interactive
timeout 300

label interactive
        kernel /vmlinuz
        append initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=203568 interactive devfs=nomount noresume selinux=0 barrier=off udevtimeout=10
label expert
        kernel /vmlinuz
        append initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=203568 expert devfs=nomount noresume selinux=0 barrier=off udevtimeout=10
label compare
        kernel /vmlinuz
        append initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=203568 compare devfs=nomount noresume selinux=0 barrier=off udevtimeout=10
label iso
        kernel /vmlinuz
        append initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=203568 iso devfs=nomount noresume selinux=0 barrier=off udevtimeout=10
label nuke
        kernel /vmlinuz
        append initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=203568 nuke devfs=nomount noresume selinux=0 barrier=off udevtimeout=10
label isonuke
        kernel /vmlinuz
        append initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=203568 isonuke devfs=nomount noresume selinux=0 barrier=off udevtimeout=10

[Craig E Johnson]

Hi Bruno. I was able to work around this issue by doing the following at the prompt after it failed:

boot:  /vmlinuz initrd=/initrd.img

Then it would boot into the mondo restore environment. I would like to know why these ISOs are failing to boot correctly though.

[Bruno Cornec]

The strange error is that it said to you it tries to find a "linux" kernel image, which is not a label used by MondoRescue.

So I wonder whether the isolinux.bin file finds the right conf file to read from in your env...

Or whether that version of isolinux has an issue...