Hello Jan-Jaap, On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:03:09AM +0100, Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote: > Here's a patch for aboot-0.9b_3 to add support for XFS. Files are > adapted from GRUB, so carry the GPL license.
Great.
> It should be possible to port Reiserfs or JFS in the same way, I just
> happen to prefer XFS for my own systems.
> There's no equivalent for e2writeboot, you'll have to keep the first MB
> or so of disk unpartitioned and use swriteboot.
Ok, when the patch is applied (upstream), I'll updated the man pages
accordingly.
> I've used essentially the same diff against aboot-0.9b_2 for at least 6
> months without any problems.
> I had hoped that support would be merged upstream and appear in Debian
> automatically.
I will talk to upstream about the patch. Right now, aboot is frozen,
and hence this patch will be post-Sarge anyways. Thanks for
submitting!
Greetings
Helge
P.S. You have an XFS only system?
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