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MattBayliss
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Create an Installer ISO Image fails when following vSphere 7.0 steps

I'm trying to follow the steps here to slip a Kickstart script into an ISO image.  Despite following exactly, I'm hitting the error below.  I've tried this on Debian as well as a CentOS system with the same result.  As far as I can determine, the Eltorito boot image `EFIBOOT.IMG` Is not present or copied with the previous commands.

Anyone have any ideas why this might be the case?

[root@centos7vm esxi_cdrom]# mkisofs -relaxed-filenames -J -R -o custom_esxi.iso -b ISOLINUX.BIN -c BOOT.CAT -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -eltorito-alt-boot -eltorito-platform efi -b EFIBOOT.IMG -no-emul-boot /esxi_cdrom
Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
genisoimage: No such file or directory. Invalid node - '-b'.
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Jeff_B
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I'm getting the same error using Rocky Linux 8 and ESXi 7.0U3n as the source

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