Package: aboot Version: 0.9b-3 Severity: important
Richard Henderson reports in a linux-kernel posting dated 14 Aug 2007: "Recent build changes have added a PT_NOTE entry to the kernel's ELF header. A perfectly valid change, but Alpha's aboot loader is none too bright about examining these headers." The same posting (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/14/259) includes a patch against aboot-1.0_pre20040408 (available at SourceForge). Note that lib/isolib.c still requires a patch to replace #include <linux/config.h> with #include <linux/autoconf.h> for use with 2.6.X kernels. The severity level is actually "critical" if a kernel more recent than 2.6.22 is required, but the current aboot package works fine for everything <= 2.6.22. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: alpha Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aboot depends on: ii aboot-base 0.9b-3 base files required for bootable m ii libc6.1 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries aboot recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
