Use mkbootdisk --iso it's what I use on a machine of mine that takes any MBR changes and reverts them as part of the recovery process. Build the ISO then burn to a CD-RW.
It takes a kernel version as an arg., doesn't it? Then, AFAICS, it'll only ever bot that kernel, not the latest on the HD.
-- [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@fnx ~]# exit
