Re: [stable] aboot - support recent kernels, fix build issues

2008-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:18:52PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:17:09PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: The problem with updating the aboot package is a little bit more complicated: It is not enough to update the aboot package alone! You must also write the new boot

Re: [stable] aboot - support recent kernels, fix build issues

2008-05-30 Thread Ivan Jager
On Fri, 30 May 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:18:52PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: I agree, and ideally the boot block would be written out with every update of aboot. I don't feel comfortable making such a large behavior change in etch, but I think it'd be great to see

Re: [stable] aboot - support recent kernels, fix build issues

2008-05-30 Thread Bob Lindell
I'm not aware of any method for reliably detecting the boot device from inside the running system on alpha. You could load the srm_env kernel module and look at /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/booted_dev. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: [stable] aboot - support recent kernels, fix build issues

2008-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Bob Lindell wrote: I'm not aware of any method for reliably detecting the boot device from inside the running system on alpha. You could load the srm_env kernel module and look at /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/booted_dev. ... which I know