[SOLVED] ISO made with make_iso.sh is not booting

[lemon]

Hi everybody,

discovered Porteus only yesterday and spent a few hours with finding out how it works (I need the kiosk version).
I've found out how to extract the ISO and make changes to che .xzm files. But when I execute make_iso.sh (I do this on a Porteus Desktop machine I installed only for that) I get an ISO that is about 1M smaller than the original one, and I cannot boot from it (tried with various USB sticks).
Here's what I do:

• a) copy the ISO to Porteus Desktop and extract it

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  mkdir /home/guest/kiosk-ISO
  mount Porteus.iso /mnt/cdrom
  cp -a /mnt/cdrom /home/guest/kiosk-ISO

  b) extract the xzm file I'm interested in

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  unsquashfs 003-settings.xzm

  c) edit the files to change (in my case just the prefs.js of firefox)
  
  d) Delete previous 003­settings.xzm file

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  sudo rm -­r 003­settings.xzm

  e) Create new squashed 003­settings.xzm file:

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  mksquashfs squashfs­root 003­-settings.xzm -­b 256K -­noappend

  f) Remove squashfs­root directory

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  rm -r squashfs­root

  g) make ISO:

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  ./make_iso.sh
  This script will create Porteus Kiosk ISO from files in current directory.
  Press enter to proceed.
  
  Saved as /home/guest/Porteus-Kiosk.iso.
  

What is wrong here? Any idea?

Thank you very much!

lemon

[fanthom]

Hello lemon,

You never made the ISO hybrid. Please refer to kiosk documentation.

[lemon]

You're right. I read the docu but as there was written "How to burn the ISO on non-optical storage media" and I also have tried burning the ISO to a CD before, I didn't consider this.
Anyway, just to be complete, if anyone else has the same problem, here are the missing steps:

h) install syslinux on Proteus Desktop to get "isohybrid" command

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usm -g syslinux

i) correct the ISO file:

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isohybrid /home/guest/Porteus-Kiosk.iso