I found a couple of typos in mkbootdisk-1.2.5-3. There is a "$n" in one place in the script where I strongly believe you mean "-n". This isn't critical, since $n is unset, and the -n flag to "test" is equivalent to no flag at all. Then there are a couple of mistakes in the manual page. See the enclosed patches for details.
Created attachment 226 [details] Patch for type on mkbootdisk script
Created attachment 227 [details] mkbootdisk man page miss a couple of roff directives.
The code is corrected in 1.4.2-1, and the missing .TP directives in the manual page too. But the font return codes after <devicefile> and <args> still miss a backslash.
fixed for 1.4.4