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Description of problem:
mkbootdisk creates a floppy disk that is unbootable due to a syxtax
error in the created file syslinux.cfg

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mkbootdisk-1.5.1-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.20-20.9
2. reboot computer with newly created bootable floppy
3.
    

Actual Results:  The computer experienced a kernal panic while trying
to boot using the newly created bootable floppy.

Additional info:

It seems the syslinux.cfg file created by the mkbootdisk script
contains a syntax error in the append line:

[root@localhost root]# cat /mnt/floppy/syslinux.cfg
default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
        kernel vmlinuz
        append initrd=initrd.img ro hdb=ide-scsi
ro hdb=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda7


If the append line is manually edited to make it back into one single
line without the extra bit about "ro" and "hdb=ide=scsi", the bootable
floppy works perfectly.

The problem is possibly linked to the fact that my / partition is
labelled "/1" as seen by my /etc/fstab file:

[root@localhost root]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults     
  1 1
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620
 0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults     
  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults     
  0 0
/dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults     
  0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto   
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda5               /mnt/redhat             ext3    noauto       
  0 0
/dev/hda1               /mnt/win_c              vfat   
noauto,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda1               /mnt/removable          auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0