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Create an Installer ISO Image fails when following vSphere 7.0 steps

  • 1.  Create an Installer ISO Image fails when following vSphere 7.0 steps

    Posted Dec 13, 2022 11:47 AM

    I'm trying to follow the steps here to slip a Kickstart script into an ISO image.  Despite following exactly, I'm hitting the error below.  I've tried this on Debian as well as a CentOS system with the same result.  As far as I can determine, the Eltorito boot image `EFIBOOT.IMG` Is not present or copied with the previous commands.

    Anyone have any ideas why this might be the case?

    [root@centos7vm esxi_cdrom]# mkisofs -relaxed-filenames -J -R -o custom_esxi.iso -b ISOLINUX.BIN -c BOOT.CAT -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -eltorito-alt-boot -eltorito-platform efi -b EFIBOOT.IMG -no-emul-boot /esxi_cdrom
    Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
    I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
    genisoimage: No such file or directory. Invalid node - '-b'.


  • 2.  RE: Create an Installer ISO Image fails when following vSphere 7.0 steps

    Posted Oct 09, 2023 03:51 PM

    I'm getting the same error using Rocky Linux 8 and ESXi 7.0U3n as the source