Hello Jan-Jaap, Hello Peter, On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:46:42AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You seem to be the maintainer of aboot for Debian.
Yes, but currently without working alpha. I CC:'ed the bug report and
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver, wo is helping me with aboot now to keep both
updated. This patch is the same as in #153666?
> This is a patch I made that adds XFS to aboot. Most of the work is done in
> the new files xfs.c,h. These are derived from grub, with some help from a
> simular project that added XFS support to the PPC bootloader.
>
> The patch applies against aboot-0.9b-3, the current version in Debian
> "Sarge" and "unstable".
>
> For Alpha-Linux, all "linux" fs's (ext2/ext3/reiser/xfs etc.) seem to share a
> single partition type (ext2). As a result, I've had to make small changes to
> disk.c to be able to boot from XFS.
Yes, unlike with MS-DOS-Style partition, only very few are defined for
BSD disklabels, hence they tend to get reused.
> There is a small fix for the Makefile is "TESTING" is defined.
>
> There is no equivalent of e2writeboot. Like UFS etc., you have to leave some
> space unpartitioned at the beginning of the harddisk. Mine looks like this:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # fdisk /dev/sda
> Detected an OSF/1 disklabel on /dev/sda, entering disklabel mode.
>
> BSD disklabel command (m for help): p
>
> 6 partitions:
> # start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 2 6000 5999 ext2
> b: 6001 16500 10500 ext2
> c: 16501 17501 1001 swap
>
> BSD disklabel command (m for help):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Regards, Jan-Jaap
>
> PS: I have sent this patch to the upstream maintainer more than a year ago.
> At first he was enhousiastic, but then he seems to have vanished off the face
> of the planet. By then is was to late to merge this with "sarge". But I've
> been running "sarge" with this patch for more than a year now without
> problems.
>
I haven't heard anything of upstream for a while, neither. I will
contact him in the next days again, maybe he returns to maintenance?
Greetings & Thanks for the patch
Helge
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