Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:08:54AM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:22:00PM +0400, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote:
> > > And here we have another patch
> > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/1abcbf6f1
> > b5a7b91/
> > That's the same patch (and AFAICT, the same message).
> > > which one is going to experimental/unstable?
> > Neither.
> And how will we boot 2.6.23 then???
How should I know? I asked for testing in
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2007/08/msg00018.html>, and apparently
nobody who's concerned about 2.6.23 yet has seen fit to do so.
> The second question is: when we update aboot, how does the boot sectors on
> discs are rewritten on installation? Because a simple "apt-get dist-upgrade"
> would update the aboot binaries and install the new kernel. If the user
> tries to reboot, he will crash... There should be some automatism that tries
> to rewrite boot records on installation of the new aboot package!
Patches welcome...
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