mkisofs can't find file

Question

I'm trying to create a .iso file using mkisofs.

I have the following folders:

my OS
|
|--src
|--bin

I used the following command:

mkisofs -R -input-charset utf8 -b bin/boot.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -o os.iso bin

the command was run from the parent directory (my OS) and I got the following error:

genisoimage: Uh oh, I can't find the boot image 'bin/boot.bin' !

I checked, and the file bin/boot.bin does exists. I tried writing ./ before the directory, and using real paths, but no good.

Can any one help me?

@PhilippeBlayo the permissions are: -rw-r--r-- (I'm the owner of the file) — elyashiv, Nov 18 '12 at 11:15
@PhilippeBlayo it's not a permission problem - I run it on root user and got the same result. — elyashiv, Nov 18 '12 at 11:30
There were some non-printing control characters in your command that were making it appear strangely on my browser. I have edited it to fix this, please confirm that the command is correct. — Random832, Nov 19 '12 at 13:38

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '12 at 12:25

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If you are creating an image of the bin directory, either put your boot image in bin/bin/boot.bin or specify it as boot.bin. The boot image path is relative to the source path (bin).

answered Nov 18 '12 at 12:25

angus

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I'm not creating a image of the hull directory, just the file thats in the `bin` directory. the file is called `boot.bin`. any way, I trued full paths (`/home/` etc) and it didn't help, so it's not a directory problem. – elyashiv Nov 18 '12 at 12:44
@elyashiv You are creating an image of the `bin` directory: `mkisofs ... bin`. Your boot image path is relative to that directory. If it is right there in `bin`, you just say `-b boot.bin`. Do you get it? – angus Nov 18 '12 at 13:05

mkisofs can't find file

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