Re: [Bug-xorriso] About run xorriso under Win32

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> libisofs_DEBUG: size=24576, ret=24541, 0x5FDD

As expected, a short result of read(2).

But the reason is still a riddle. If it was some Cygwin limit
on the size of a read(2) then i would have expected a number
which is aligned to some block size.
But the number of requested bytes is a neat number (2 exp 13 * 3)
and the reply 24541 (11 * 23 * 97) is not a multiple of any
plausible block size.

The disk file in question is
  isolinux/isolinux.bin

What do you get from
  ls -l isolinux/isolinux.bin
and
  wc isolinux/isolinux.bin


> If possible, could you please point me about how to use the libisoburn?

Normally you just unpack libisoburn-1.3.8.tar.gz and do
configure && make. But first you'd need to build and install
libburn-1.3.8 and libisofs-1.3.8.

So let's stay with GNU xorriso, which brings all non-standard
equipment in its tarball and needs no system-wide installation.
The source code is the same. Only the way of linking differs.
GNU xorriso does not need nor tries to use the installed
libisofs and libburn.


> Actually, I had tried mkisofs (schily-cdrtools-3.01a25) [...]
> -eltorito-platform 0xEF -no-emul-boot -b "boot/grub/efi.img" [...]
> However the generated iso can't boot EFI machine due to some reason even it
> can boot BIOS machine.

Let's hope it is a flaw of mkisofs and not of your EFI.
What do you get from an inspection of the resulting ISO ?
(The command -report_el_torito is known only to xorriso-1.3.8
 or later)

  ..\xorriso -indev ..\a.iso -report_el_torito plain

Here is example output from an Archlinux ISO for BIOS and (U)EFI:

  El Torito catalog  : 42  1
  El Torito cat path : /isolinux/boot.cat
  El Torito images   :   N  Pltf  B   Emul  Ld_seg  Hdpt  Ldsiz         LBA
  El Torito boot img :   1  BIOS  y   none  0x0000  0x00      4       20078
  El Torito boot img :   2  UEFI  y   none  0x0000  0x00  63488       21108
  El Torito img path :   1  /isolinux/isolinux.bin
  El Torito img opts :   1  boot-info-table isohybrid-suitable
  El Torito img path :   2  /EFI/archiso/efiboot.img


What happens about EFI booting if you leave out the BIOS
boot options in your xorriso run ? I.e.:

  ..\xorriso -as mkisofs -U -A centos65 -V centos65 -volset centos65 -J 
-joliet-long -r -v -T -o ../centos65.iso -c isolinux/boot.cat -e 
boot/grub/efi.img -no-emul-boot .

(No -boot-info-table causes no read attempt for patching. So
 the code part which throws the error will not be executed.
 The lfs_read() calls for copying file content into the
 emerging ISO image request smaller chunk sizes than the
 call for patching the BIOS boot image.)


> Do you have some suggestions about it?

Hopefully i augmented lfs_read() so that it tries to read
the missing bytes if read(2) delivers not the expected amount.
This still needs some testing here, because it is a very central
function of libisofs.

In the course of this day i will prepare and upload a new
development snapshot xorriso-1.3.9.tar.gz and give you a note.
(Do not download an existing xorriso-1.3.9.tar.gz now, because
 it is not yet on the newest state.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas