How To Install mkbootdisk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkbootdisk.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mkbootdisk.x86_64 is Creates a boot floppy disk for booting a system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkbootdisk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is mkbootdisk.x86_64

The mkbootdisk program creates a standalone boot floppy disk for booting the running system. The created boot disk will look for the root filesystem on the device mentioned in /etc/fstab and includes an initial ramdisk image which will load any necessary SCSI modules for the system.

We can use yum to install mkbootdisk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkbootdisk.x86_64.

Install mkbootdisk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mkbootdisk.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mkbootdisk.x86_64

How To Uninstall mkbootdisk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mkbootdisk.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mkbootdisk.x86_64

mkbootdisk.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/sbin/mkbootdisk
/usr/share/doc/mkbootdisk-1.5.5
/usr/share/doc/mkbootdisk-1.5.5/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/mkbootdisk.8.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkbootdisk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.