Can aboot boot kernels from xfs, reiserfs, or jfs partitions?
No, aboot only supports booting kernels from ext2 and ext3 partitions. You may still use other files systems for your root partition, you just need to create a /boot partition with either ext2 or ext3 on it. Support for reiserfs and xfs is planned. In fact, there are patches floating around that add support for those two file systems. However, the use of those patches is unsupported. 7.