On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:39:28AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote:
> >>I used the one at: > >>http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ > >>but I'll try again and leave some space at the top of the disk for > >>aboot. What does it need, a few megs? > >Less than 1MB. A single sector should be sufficient. > I guess this should be fixed. I found it very confusing. Atleast when i > say continue we should make aboot complain about this. It already > complains about /boot not being ext2. Is it possible to add this check > for a small partition there ? > How are we planning to fix this ? aboot-installer needs to be updated to force the creation of a small partition #1 reserved for its own use at the front of the disk containing the /boot directory. I expect to work on this later in the month, but don't object to someone beating me to it. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer