I've been suckered into^W^W^Wvolunteered to maintaining 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 is basically all of Greg Johnson's stuff from the Debian package :) 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 :) -- David Huggins-Daines, Senior Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc. 613.562.1239 desk, 613.223.0225 mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
