Bug#116413: Alpha: Wrong partition No. for aboot

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:

> Package: boot-floppies
> Architecture: Alpha
> Version: current/
> Distribution: woody/sid
> 
> After installing my videocard-less system (with more or less PITA) I
> had difficulties to boot it. I've added an extra partition for /boot
> (as I normally do for all other architectures I am workin on as
> well), but this wasn't recognized by dbootstrap. dbootstrap set my
> root partition's partition number as the partition ID where to
> search /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-generic in. Wrong.

Ok, I can fix this, the SILO part already has equivalent code to
handle this that I can steal. But I don't see any point in having a
separate /boot partition. Why do you think a special partition would
be useful?

        Falk