[CentOS] issue with virt-install and CS9 boot iso

Wed Dec 29 17:47:24 UTC 2021
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 29.12.21 um 18:35 schrieb Gordon Messmer:
> On 12/29/21 07:29, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
>>
>> virt-install
>>  -l CentOS-Stream-9-20211222.0-x86_64-boot.iso 
> 
> 
> I don't have  CS8 host handy to check... The man page for "virt-install 
> -l" notes that this should work if virt-install is run as root.  Is it 
> run as root?
> 
> The man page also suggests that you should be able to mount the ISO to a 
> local directory and then use that path as the argument to "-l".  Have 
> you tried that to verify that the structure of the ISO filesystem is as 
> expected?


Current state here is right now:

-l CentOS-Stream-9-20211222.0-x86_64-dvd1.iso

works, but

-l CentOS-Stream-9-20211222.0-x86_64-boot.iso

NOT.

A quick test with

-l 
CentOS-Stream-9-20211222.0-x86_64-boot.iso,kernel=isolinux/vmlinuz,initrd=isolinux/initrd.img

booted but hangs forever in the middle of the anaconda process.

I assume that some metadata is missing in the boot.iso file.
Like the .treeinfo file (its included in the dvd.iso file).

Example:
https://mirror1.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/centos-stream/9-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/.treeinfo

--
Leon