Re: aboot 0.6a

[Andreas Vetter <vetter physik uni-wuerzburg de>]

Could You announce it also on www.freshmeat.net, please?

Thanx.

On 23 Mar 2000 dhuggins@linuxcare.com wrote:

->(Really sorry for the repeat post, but my original one to axp-list was
->rejected since I sent it from the wrong address :P)
->
->I've been suckered into^W^W^Wvolunteered to maintain the official
->aboot sources, and figured it was high time I made a release, so here
->it is:
->
->http://www.debian.org/~dhd/aboot/
->
->Once Linuxcare gives me somewhere to put it on their site, I'll
->probably move it there, either that or to sourceforge...
->
->The release notes are in the README.html, so I won't rehash them here.
->The diff from 0.6 to 0.6a is basically all of Greg Johnson's stuff
->from the Debian package - some cleanups and improved serial console
->support.
->
->One thing that should be mentioned that is important for distributions
->to know is that the Red Hat installer-specific code that tried to
->guess the boot device and appended "bootfile=" and "bootdevice="
->parameters to the kernel command line is gone.  The problem was that
->it basically doesn't work - it could tell you if you were booting from
->SCSI, IDE, or floppy, but that's about it, and in most cases it would
->just fall back on /dev/scd0, which is kind of wrong since most alphas
->these days have IDE CD-ROM drives.
->
->Unfortunately as far as I can tell, translating the value of the
->BOOTED_DEV environment variable to a Linux device name is beyond the
->capabilities of aboot, since the value is system-specific (it requires
->you to know the layout of the system busses and so forth - so it could
->probably be done by the kernel).  But I'd like to be proven wrong :)
->
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