# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/aboot/aboot-1.0_pre20040408.ebuild,v 1.4 2004/07/15 02:49:16 agriffis Exp $ DESCRIPTION="Alpha Linux boot loader for SRM" HOMEPAGE="http://aboot.sourceforge.net/" SRC_URI="http://aboot.sourceforge.net/tarballs/aboot-1.0_pre20040408.tar.bz2" LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="-* ~alpha" IUSE="" DEPEND="virtual/libc" PROVIDE="virtual/bootloader" src_unpack() { unpack ${A} cd ${S} sed -i "s:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:" Makefile || die } src_compile() { emake || die } src_install() { dodir /boot /sbin /usr/share/man/man5 make \ root=${D} \ bindir=${D}/sbin \ bootdir=${D}/boot \ mandir=${D}/usr/share/man \ install dodoc ChangeLog INSTALL README TODO aboot.conf insinto /etc newins ${FILESDIR}/aboot.conf aboot.conf.example } pkg_postinst() { einfo "To make aboot install a new bootloader on your harddisk follow" einfo "these steps:" einfo "" einfo " - edit the file /etc/aboot.conf" einfo " - cd /boot" einfo " - swriteboot -c2 /dev/sda bootlx" einfo " This will install a new bootsector on /dev/sda and aboot will" einfo " use the second partition on this device to lookup kernel and " einfo " initrd (as described in the aboot.conf file)" einfo "" einfo "IMPORTANT :" einfo "" einfo "The partition table of your boot device has to contain " einfo "a BSD-DISKLABEL and the first 12 megabytes of your boot device" einfo "must not be part of a partition as aboot will write its bootloader" einfo "in there and not as with most x86 bootloaders into the " einfo "master boot sector. If your partition table does not reflect this" einfo "you are going to destroy your installation !" einfo "Also note that aboot currently only supports ext2/3 partitions" einfo "to boot from." }