Re: aboot maintainer?

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

Craig P Prescott wrote:
> 
> Hi, all;
> 
> I posted the message below to comp.os.linux.alpha; maybe someone here
> knows, too.  In short:
> 
> Is there a current maintainer of the aboot package "upstream" of the
> Linux distribution outfits?
> 
> Thanks,
> Craig
> 
> The post to comp.os.linux.alpha:
> 
> ----------------
> 
> Greetings;
> 
> I have a patch for aboot which allows booting on
> the DEC 3000 turbochannel machines, as I am
> working (slowly) on getting linux to run on these
> boxes.  I've asked a few people to whom I should
> submit this patch, and have been informed by some
> that aboot currently has no maintainer upstream of
> the various distributions.
> 
> It was suggested to me by David Mosberger to ask
> here and verify if this is true or not.
> 
> Anybody know?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Craig
> 
> P.S. In the event there is no known aboot
> "upstream" maintainer for aboot, I should like to
> volunteer.  I can at least give the package a home
> until someone more capable/willing than I wants to
> do it...  I can give it a web page, update docs,
> review/accept patches, make any announcements,
> etc.
> 
> ---
> Craig Prescott
> 2011 New Physics Building
> University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
> prescott@phys.ufl.edu

Ooooh. Nifty. I didn't think Linux could work on the 3000 at all. Does
your version of aboot also run on 164SX (and the others) and does it
solve the problem with the 'sparse superblocks' version of the ext2
filesystem? The version of Red Hat Rawhide I'm running right now is a
bit kludgy on booting. I'm using milo and the kernel is booting from the
dos partition because milo can't read the new ext2 filesystem.

Chris Kloiber