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Re: aboot



On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:53:11PM -0500, Doug Larrick wrote:
> The big problem is that the aboot in Potato (0.5-4) doesn't understand
> recently-created ext2 filesystems.  ext2 has had a couple of
> extensions added to it, evidently, that our version of aboot doesn't
> understand.
> 
> Anyway, to fix the problem, I downloaded the RPM for aboot 0.5-15 from
> RedHat and installed via alien.  I can boot now...

You should report a bug, please.  I am on the verge of uploading the first
set of potato boot-floppies for alpha, and I would like to have a working
aboot to build them with.

I'll integrate the RH patches and NMU it if need be, but a bug has to be
reported first :)


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