Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-12-01 Thread Carsten Valdemar Munk
Quoting Christopher Allan Webber cweb...@dustycloud.org: It is good to hear that bootmenu is working on the n900, but IMO this is just a workaround for the root of the problem: the NOLO bootloader clearly sucks, is non-free, and is just plain unconfigurable (or if it is configurable, there

Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-12-01 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Carsten Valdemar Munk wrote: . Or allow for flashing the NAND/eMMC through USB. Oh, right, if it can flash eMMC then the mmc code is in, so loading kernel from mmc is one NOLO bugzilla enhancement away ;-) In this case, noone says you cannot include a bootmenu in that zImage that

Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-12-01 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Frantisek Dufka wrote: Oh, right, if it can flash eMMC then the mmc code is in, so loading kernel from mmc is one NOLO bugzilla enhancement away ;-) Again, having kernel commandline stored inside config partition and NOLO using it instead of builtin command line would be ideal situation.

Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Great! Thank you Frantisek! Frantisek Dufka duf...@seznam.cz writes: Frantisek Dufka wrote: Oh, right, if it can flash eMMC then the mmc code is in, so loading kernel from mmc is one NOLO bugzilla enhancement away ;-) Again, having kernel commandline stored inside config partition and

Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Faheem Pervez tripp...@gmail.com writes: Thanks to Carsten Munk, bootmenu gained N900 support: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=344412postcount=16 Thanks for this information, and actually all of the information in this thread. It is good to hear that bootmenu is working on the n900, but

Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-11-26 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 05:10 +0100, ext Christopher Allan Webber wrote: However, I realize I need to configure the bootloader to load off the SD card. This is proving a bit hard to do, however, as I cannot find any documentation on configuring the NOLO bootloader. So

Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-11-25 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello all, I'm interested in exploring installing Debian on the n900. I assume that for the most part, if I loosely follow these instructions: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm/apds03.html.en ... that it may be possible to do so. However, I realize I need to configure the bootloader to

Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-11-25 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 05:10 +0100, ext Christopher Allan Webber wrote: Hello all, I'm interested in exploring installing Debian on the n900. I assume that for the most part, if I loosely follow these instructions: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm/apds03.html.en ... that it may

Re: Debian on the n900 / Configuring NOLO

2009-11-25 Thread Faheem Pervez
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Christopher Allan Webber cweb...@dustycloud.org wrote: Hello all, Hiya, However, I realize I need to configure the bootloader to load off the SD card.  This is proving a bit hard to do, however, as I cannot find any documentation on configuring the NOLO