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mkbootdisk: Creates a boot floppy disk for booting a system.

Name:	mkbootdisk	Vendor:	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Version:	1.5.1	License:	GPL
Release:	1	URL:

Summary

The mkbootdisk program creates a standalone boot floppy disk for booting the running system. The created boot disk will look for the root filesystem on the device mentioned in /etc/fstab and includes an initial ramdisk image which will load any necessary SCSI modules for the system.

Changelog

* Wed Feb 19 18:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj{%}redhat{*}com> 1.5.1-1

- apply mikem's patch so that we handle loop devices better (#84351)
- switch to making a loopback img and then dd'ing that to the floppy (#84351)
- man page updates (#77262)

* Wed Feb 19 18:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj{%}redhat{*}com> 1.5.0-1

- use copy instead of mkinitrd to get the initrd
- don't get default kernel args if grubby can't figure out the default kernel
- exit with an exit status of 1 if things fail

* Mon Dec 23 18:00:00 2002 Matt Wilson <msw{%}redhat{*}com>

- rebuild in new collection

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