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mkbootdisk ? creates a stand-alone boot floppy for the running system |
mkbootdisk [--version] [--noprompt] [--verbose] [--mkinitrdargs <args>] [--device <devicefile>] <kernel> |
mkbootdisk creates a boot floppy appropriate for the running system. The boot disk is entirely self-contained, and includes an initial ramdisk image which loads any necessary SCSI modules for the system. The created boot disk looks for the root filesystem on the device suggested by /etc/fstab. The only required argument is the kernel version to put onto the boot floppy. |
-?device <devicefile> |
The boot image is created on <devicefile>fR. If --device is not specified, /dev/fd0 is used. -?mkinitrdargs <args> Passes <args>fR to mkinitrd (which is used to create the initial ramdisk image for the boot floppy). Any mkinitrd arguments may be specified. -?noprompt Normally, mkbootdisk instructs the user to insert a floppy and waits for confirmation before continuing. If -?noprompt is specified, no prompt is displayed. |
-?verbose |
Instructs mkbootdisk to talk about what it’s doing as it’s doing it. Normally, there is no output from mkbootdisk. |
-?version |
Displays the version of mkbootdisk and exits. |
mkinitrd(1), |
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> |