Re: aboot maintainer?

[Ruediger Oertel <ro suse de>]

> > 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.
> 
> 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.
did you try the patch I posted on 29th in the thread "Red Hat Rawhide/Alpha" ?
I do have another patch to make aboot load an initial ramdisk with the kernel.
I whould surely be glad if someone could coordinate the work on aboot.

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with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
                              Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
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