This is an old bug, but I ran into this problem during a dist-upgrade from Etch to Lenny on 164LX. The dist-upgrade went smoothly, but I could not boot the Lenny kernel.
Booting the Etch kernel, which I still had, and performing an swriteboot solved the problem. I could boot the Lenny kernel after that.
It is true that the version number in the bootlx file is 0.9b. But other than that, the bootlx file from the 1.0~pre20040408-3 Lenny binary package works fine when booting the Lenny kernel. Maybe the ABOOT_* variables in include/config.h should be updated?
I think the main issue is that swriteboot was not run after the upgrade to the Lenny kernel. This instruction probably belongs in the Lenny release notes for Alpha. There is a mention in the 'etchnhalf' release notes that aboot was updated to support booting of recent kernels. [1]
I did rebuild aboot on a Lenny system from source, and I observed that the cksums for the bootlx file from the Lenny package matched what I built from source. I don't believe there was any packaging error. Maybe you did an swriteboot after you built and installed the aboot package from source?
Cheers, Craig [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
