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strupo

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Registered: 2018-01-26

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] grub-mkrescue fails because it can't find xorriso

I was trying to use grub-mkrescue, but it fails because it can't find xorriso, on which it depends to make the iso image:

grub-mkrescue: error: xorriso not found.

I know that xorriso has been renamed to mkisofs, and I tried creating a symlink to it in /usr/bin, but it still gave me the same error.

Is this a bug or am I simply doing something wrong?

Last edited by strupo (2019-11-04 12:50:54)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,098

Re: [SOLVED] grub-mkrescue fails because it can't find xorriso

pacman -Si grub
Repository      : core
Name            : grub
Version         : 2:2.04-2
Description     : GNU GRand Unified Bootloader (2)
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Licenses        : GPL3
Groups          : None
Provides        : grub-common  grub-bios  grub-emu  grub-efi-x86_64
Depends On      : sh  xz  gettext  device-mapper
Optional Deps   : freetype2: For grub-mkfont usage
                  fuse2: For grub-mount usage
                  dosfstools: For grub-mkrescue FAT FS and EFI support
                  efibootmgr: For grub-install EFI support
                  libisoburn: Provides xorriso for generating grub rescue iso using grub-mkrescue
                  os-prober: To detect other OSes when generating grub.cfg in BIOS systems

Is libisoburn installed?

strupo

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Registered: 2018-01-26

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] grub-mkrescue fails because it can't find xorriso

No, it wasn't installed. I installed it and that fixed the issue. Thanks