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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.
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* 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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