From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17-0.9 i686) Description of problem: why mkbootdisk don't use _fdformat_ to make a Low-level format, and add "-c" to mkdosfs for Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. (line 144). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.none 2.none 3.none Additional info:
the compact option is old, because it is not using lilo. delete from the man page and mkbootdisk
if you want to fdformat, you should run it by hand; there is no reason for mkbootdisk to do this for you (we don't by default because it is quite slow and most floppies don't need it) compact option and docs removed for 1.4.4