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I'm trying to create a bootable ISO using xorriso, but I get this error:

xorriso : FAILURE : Cannot find in ISO image: -boot_image ... bin_path='<path to isolinux.bin that I specified>'

It's not just me who gas gotten this error. The message doesn't make sense either because I never used -boot_image and xorriso should not be looking for isolinux.bin in any ISO.

The path to isolinux.bin that I gave is the root directory of an already-unpacked ISO that I'm modifying.

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The message you get means that you gave a boot option mentioning isolinux.bin as the boot image, but that the path to isolinux.bin is not in the list of files which shall show up in the emerging ISO image.

-boot_image is the xorriso command which controls many boot related properties. If you did not use it then I guess you used the mkisofs emulation, where this was probably option -b (alias -eltorito-boot) which expects the path inside the ISO, not in the filesystem from where your files come.

So make sure to give with -b the path of isolinux.bin in the ISO. In many ISOs, you will find it in /boot/isolinux or in /isolinux. So if you just pack up a mounted ISO again, you will possibly have success with

  -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin

or

  -b isolinux/isolinux.bin

(The lack of trailing slash makes these paths compatible with mkisofs which expects a relative path in the working directory of the source filesystem. I.e. with mkisofs -b would work only if your pwd is the ISO's root.)

I could give clearer advise if you tell me the URL of the ISO which you try to use as input and the xorrisofs options which you used.

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  • It's the CD/DVD image for the Ubuntu 20.04.1 AMD64 desktop installer. The commands I'm using can be found on the Ubuntu help wiki page [InstallCDCustomization](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization) under the heading `AMD64 with isohybrid and UEFI`. – Melab Sep 21 '20 at 02:32