Because I yesterday had to -- over the phone -- help a thoroughly computer impaired friend making a boot disk for her RH61 system I have this enhancement suggestion for mkbootdisk: If it is run without parameters it should assume reasonable defaults, ask the user if the defaults are OK and then make the boot disk. Reasonable defaults could be: device = /dev/fd0 kernel version could be the latest version found in /lib/modules or maybe somehow located by looking in /proc/version Otherwise, the tool works nicely. cheers //Johan
perhaps, but nobody else has ever asked for this so... fwiw, mkbootdisk `uname -r` does what you want. You could (easily) argue that this would be a much more sane default, but right now it mimics mkinitrd and that default doesn't make sense for mkintird, so I'm going to leave it.