1MKBOOTDISK(8)               System Manager's Manual              MKBOOTDISK(8)
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NAME

6       mkbootdisk - creates a stand-alone boot floppy for the running system
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SYNOPSIS

9       mkbootdisk [--version] [--noprompt] [--verbose]
10                  [--device devicefile] [--size size]
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DESCRIPTION

15       mkbootdisk  creates  a  boot floppy appropriate for the running system.
16       The boot disk is  entirely  self-contained,  and  includes  an  initial
17       ramdisk  image  which  loads any necessary SCSI modules for the system.
18       The created boot disk looks for the root filesystem on the device  sug‐
19       gested by /etc/fstab.  The only required argument is the kernel version
20       to put onto the boot floppy.
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OPTIONS

24       --device devicefile
25              The boot image is created on  devicefile.  If  --device  is  not
26              specified, /dev/fd0 is used. If devicefile does not exist mkini‐
27              trd creates a 1.44Mb floppy image using devicefile as the  file‐
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32              Normally,  mkbootdisk  instructs the user to insert a floppy and
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38              Instructs mkbootdisk to talk about what it's doing as it's doing
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46              Displays the version of mkbootdisk and exits.
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50              Adds args to the arguments appended on the kernel command  line.
51              If  this  is  not  specified mkbootdisk uses grubby to parse the
52              arguments for the default kernel from grub.conf, if possible.
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56              Uses size (in kilobytes) as the size of the image to use for the
57              boot  disk.   If this is not specified, mkbootdisk will assume a
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SEE ALSO

62       grubby(8) mkinitrd(1)
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AUTHOR

66       Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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704th Berkeley Distribution       Tue Mar 31 1998                  MKBOOTDISK(8)