livecd-creator used to work on centos 5, now giving "syslinux not installed" error

[Peter Scheie]

A couple weeks ago I used the instructions at
https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/ to create a live CD of CentOS
5.  I did this on a Centos 5.3 virtual machine running under VirtualBox
running on top of Ubuntu, at my office.  I did the same thing at home on
my laptop.  In both cases I was able to create the minimal livecd and
the full destkop livecd.  Then I went on vacation for three weeks.  When
I got back, I tried to create another livecd image, using the same
command, to just refresh my memory of what I'd been working on.  Here's
the command I used:

LANG=C livecd-creator --config=centos-livecd-minimal.ks
--fslabel=CentOS-minimal

But this time, I got the following error:

Error creating Live CD : syslinux not installed : no suitable *menu.c32
found

I tried it at home as well and got the same error.  I've got syslinux
3.36-4.2 installed, including menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32.  Any ideas as
to what would have changed that would cause livecd-creator to break, or
how to fix it?  Thanks.

Peter

[Patrice Guay]

Peter Scheie wrote:
>  Here's the command I used:
>
>  LANG=C livecd-creator --config=centos-livecd-minimal.ks
>  --fslabel=CentOS-minimal
>
>  [...] I got the following error:
>
>  Error creating Live CD : syslinux not installed : no suitable *menu.c32
>  found
>
>  I tried it at home as well and got the same error.  I've got syslinux
>  3.36-4.2 installed, including menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32.  Any ideas as
>  to what would have changed that would cause livecd-creator to break, or
>  how to fix it?   
livecd-tools 014-4 will now look in both /usr/share/syslinux and 
/usr/lib/syslinux for menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32.

Make sure you use this version of livecd-tools and try again. If you 
still have problems, you can open a ticket on 
https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/

Regards,
--
Patrice Guay

[Peter Scheie]

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 15:07 -0400, Patrice Guay wrote:
>  Peter Scheie wrote:
>  > Here's the command I used:
>  >
>  > LANG=C livecd-creator --config=centos-livecd-minimal.ks
>  > --fslabel=CentOS-minimal
>  >
>  > [...] I got the following error:
>  >
>  > Error creating Live CD : syslinux not installed : no suitable *menu.c32
>  > found
>  >
>  > I tried it at home as well and got the same error.  I've got syslinux
>  > 3.36-4.2 installed, including menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32.  Any ideas as
>  > to what would have changed that would cause livecd-creator to break, or
>  > how to fix it?  
>  
>  livecd-tools 014-4 will now look in both /usr/share/syslinux and 
>  /usr/lib/syslinux for menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32.
>  
>  Make sure you use this version of livecd-tools and try again. If you 
>  still have problems, you can open a ticket on 
>  https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/
>  
>  Regards,
>  --
>  Patrice Guay 
That worked.  Thanks.

Peter