Re: new parted version available for testing ... (fwd)

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:12:18AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > I've put m68k packages for stable and unstable at 
> > > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/parted/
> > > 
> > > Could you rebuild the new 2.0.0.3 version, please ?
> > > I fixed partition table writing when no amiga partition was previously
> > > found on the disk and incorporated your below changes.
> > 
> > I've updated the stable packages.
> 
> Thanks! This time it seems to work fine on my Amiga (Sven: I'll send you an
> output dump in private email).

Yep, it works nicely. The only problem remaining are the amiga filesystems
detection when using unconventional block sizes, since parted does not
(yet) provide functionality to pass something else from the partition
block to the filesystem code.

Do someone know if it is possible to autodetect the block size as well
as the prealloc and reserved values ?

Then i will had formatting support for affs and asfs, and it would be
possible to create a new bootable system from linux without ever going
to amigaos/morphos.

A yes, i need to add also a way to change partition attributes, like the
boot priority.

Now, what is the situation of the boot loader on amiga/m68k and
amiga/apus ? Do you have a lilo-like thingy, or still the ami/apusboot
program we used back then ? If the later is the case, it should be
possible to cross compile it, and then to make a debian package with it,
installing it in the affs formatted /boot partition or a affs
/boot/amiboot or something such.

Friendly,

Sven Luther