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Name: mkbootdisk | Distribution: Red Hat (FC-5) |
Version: 1.5.2 | Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. |
Release: 7 | Build date: Mon Jun 26 05:15:43 2006 |
Group: System Environment/Base | Build host: ia64-1.build.redhat.com |
Size: 7334 | Source RPM: mkbootdisk-1.5.2-7.src.rpm |
Packager: Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> | |
Summary: Creates a boot floppy disk for booting a system. |
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.
GPL
internal MD5: b20913956a8e70cf417a1d3ad02273f1
GPG
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> 1.5.2-7 - fix tail command usage (#196525) * Tue Mar 07 2006 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> 1.5.2-6 - build as noarch * Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 1.5.2-5.2 - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes * Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - rebuilt * Thu Mar 17 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> 1.5.2-5 - rebuild * Mon Nov 01 2004 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - fix slight man page error (#85470) * Mon Oct 25 2004 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - fix problem with hangup (#112752) * Thu Oct 21 2004 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - fix clear /tmp (#136599) * Tue Aug 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 1.5.2-1 - fix name of system to boot (#114878) * Wed Feb 19 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 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 2002 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> - rebuild in new collection * Thu Aug 08 2002 Michael Fulbright <msf@redhat.com> - fix creation of boot iso image * Thu Aug 08 2002 Michael Fulbright <msf@redhat.com> - fix small bug with temp files * Thu Aug 08 2002 Michael Fulbright <msf@redhat.com> - add option when we make dos fs to save more space * Mon Jun 03 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - only run grubby if /boot/grub/grub.conf exists * Mon Jun 03 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - if --kernelargs isn't specified and grubby is available use it to get the arguments to use; this only works with mkinitrd (grubby) >= 3.4.3 (8591) - fixed some typos in man page (11297) - use cp -p rather then cp -a (as we want to follow symlinks) (13480) - create image files if appropriate (53818) - compact option removed (syslinux doesn't use it anyway) (58989) * Tue Mar 26 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - add --kernelargs command line option * Sun Jan 06 2002 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de> - do not require syslinux for sparc * Mon Nov 05 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - fixed minor typo in man page * Wed Aug 15 2001 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> - changed Summary:, it's no longer a bad copy and paste job from the mkinitrd spec file (MF #50193) * Sun Jun 24 2001 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> - Bump release + rebuild. * Thu Feb 08 2001 Michael Fulbright <msf@redhat.com> - return error code when we cant format the floppy. Helps anaconda out. * Tue Jan 23 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - switched to use syslinux rather then lilo - requires dosfstools - put version in only one place, mkbootdisk * Thu Jul 06 2000 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - wasn't including ethernet devices properly * Thu Jun 01 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> - conf.modules -> modules.conf, fhs stuff * Mon May 01 2000 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - patched to work with disk labels * Thu Feb 03 2000 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> - gzip manpage * Mon Jan 10 2000 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - removed rescue stuff * Mon Nov 08 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> - removed 'prompt' from silo.conf * Mon Oct 25 1999 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> - fix sparc ramdisk making for new modutils and kernel file layout. * Sat Sep 25 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com> - ignore commented lines in fstab, generally more robust fstab parsing * Sat Aug 21 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> - ditto * Thu Aug 12 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> - add fix * Tue May 25 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> - added -P to the cp lines for devices to pick up parent directories for ida/ and rd/ * Wed Apr 07 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> - pass load_ramdisk=2 as alan had to port his ramdisk hack from 2.0.x * Mon Apr 05 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> - pass load_ramdisk=1 for rescue image, as 2.2 kernels get this right * Thu Mar 18 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> - fixed misspelling in man page * Thu Feb 25 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> - updated the description * Thu Nov 05 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> - import from ultrapenguin 1.1. * Fri Oct 30 1998 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz> - support for SPARC * Sat Aug 29 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - wasn't including nfs, isofs, or fat modules properly - mkinitrd args weren't passed right due to a typo
/sbin/mkbootdisk /usr/share/man/man8/mkbootdisk.8.gz
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