How do I make a bootdisk that will boot my system into the default runlevel?

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Typing mkbootdisk <kernel> as the root user will create a system bootdisk that will boot into the default runlevel you have set in /etc/inittab.

An example would be :

# mkbootdisk <kernel>

This command may prompt for a floppy disk. Please see the man page by typing man mkbootdisk from the command line for ...

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