aboot for Debian ---------------- This package was originally created by Jeff Noxon , and was then maintained by Greg Johnson and later by Helge Kreutzmann . The current maintainer is Steve Langasek . The last upstream maintainers were Will Woods and Chris Lumens . The aboot package includes code from the milo source tree (srmbootfat and srmbootraw) on request by the d-i; I have not tested it. You can get the full source from: http://milo.coresystems.de/source/milo-2.2-18.tar.bz2 For architectures other than alpha, the aboot-cross package contains isomarkboot and srmbootfat required to create bootable images in d-i. On alpha these are contained in the aboot package. Since they are architecture independent but not heavily tested on non-alpha archs use with proper care and please *report bugs* if they don't work on your favourite architecture! Notes for backporting --------------------- If you want to update your kernel in Etch beyond 2.6.22 (i.e. 2.6.23-rcX or later) you cannot use the aboot package supplied in Etch. Simply compiling the Lenny version in an Etch system does not work either. To backport a current aboot, do either one of the following (untested, but should work): - grab the aboot-base package from unstable, which is arch: all and has no dependencies, and install it without worrying about the aboot package; the bootloader itself is contained in aboot-base, so that should be sufficient to get you a working 2.6.23 (or later) boot. - install linux-libc-dev from unstable, and build the package against that instead of the linux-kernel-headers included in etch.