Bug 4486 - mkbootdisk in E-Commerce edition broken
Summary: mkbootdisk in E-Commerce edition broken
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mkbootdisk
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-08-12 00:26 UTC by Martin C. Messer
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-12 20:04:04 UTC

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Description Martin C. Messer 1999-08-12 00:26:58 UTC 
mkbootdisk-1.2-3 errors with 'open /dev/fd0: No such file or
directory'.

Though the format, kernel, initrd, and lilo steps appear to
complete using verbose mode, the diskette that is created is
not bootable. This behavior occurs regardless of the device
parameter passed (fd0, fd0H1440).

Whatever changed between 1.2-2 and 1.2-3 is not good. I
assume new installs of the E-Commerce edition will not
display any errors, but will not produce a usable boot
diskette either.
Comment 1 Stephen John Smoogen 1999-08-12 19:58:59 UTC 
Here is the fix

[smooge@torgo smooge]$ diff -u /sbin/mkbootdisk ./mkbootdisk.fixed
--- /sbin/mkbootdisk    Tue May 25 17:06:44 1999
+++ ./mkbootdisk.fixed  Thu Aug 12 15:55:03 1999
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@
 mkdir $MOUNTDIR/etc
 mkdir $MOUNTDIR/dev
 mkdir $MOUNTDIR/boot
-cp -Pa $device $MOUNTDIR/dev
-cp -Pa $rootdev $MOUNTDIR/dev
+cp -Pa $device $MOUNTDIR
+cp -Pa $rootdev $MOUNTDIR
 cp -a /boot/boot.b $MOUNTDIR/boot/boot.b

 cat > $MOUNTDIR/etc/lilo.conf <<EOF
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-12 20:04:59 UTC 
fixed in mkbootdisk-1.2.1-1.
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