Re: aboot maintainer?

[Craig P Prescott <prescott phys ufl edu>]

>Ooooh. Nifty. I didn't think Linux could work on the 3000 at all. Does

It doesn't yet, but certainly it *can*.  I've had zero time to work on
it the last couple months.  But I've sunk my teeth back into it in the
last couple of days, and with any luck I will get somewhere on it
before I have to go back to work.

>your version of aboot also run on 164SX (and the others) and does it

Yup.  I've tried it out on 164LX, 164SX, AS 250, AS 200, and Multia.
On the DEC 3000, I've only tried booting over the network, it is able
to load a kernel (which later hangs).

>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.

No, my patch won't solve that.  I've seen the "Red Hat Rawhide/Alpha"
thread - I'll bring Rawhide home in the next day or so and play with
it, along with Ruediger Oertel's patch.

>Chris Kloiber

Cheers,
Craig
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