Igor wrote in news:47f31dab-3fb4-4f62-8cdf-
97a07c2188f9@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

> mkbootdisk

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1272

Igor wrote:
> I need a precise command to make rescue boot CD-disk from and for Red
> Hat Scientific Linux 4 (which is a clone of Enterprise).
> I tried
> /sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/cdwriter `uname -r`
> but it does not work.
> Does somebody know what is wrong and how could be right?

man mkbootdisk

SYNOPSIS
mkbootdisk [--version] [--noprompt] [--verbose]
[--device devicefile] [--size size]
[--kernelargs ] [--iso] kernel

--iso Instructs mkbootdisk to make a bootable ISO image as devicefile.

I haven't done it in a long time but the --iso was required.

/sbin/mkbootdisk --iso 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64

It automatically looks into /lib/modules and so does not like /lib/modules/
as part of the identification and does not like a trailing / to show it is a
directory. The entire process looks like a classic example of cruft which is
why I was surprised to find the --iso addition a few years ago.

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