Yes, I tried this because I have a vague desire to get Debian booting  
from my SD card, and it is in that context that I have had to look at  
these files. However the volume applet wouldn't load and I think the  
sound was broken. I didn't follow it up because I was trying to get  
Debian to work. That was in turn frustrated by other things.

On 14 Feb 2008, at 10:54, Grigorios Prasinos wrote:

> John Walker (Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:17:52PM +0000):
>> It is frustrating that we haven't still got access to earlier  
>> versions
>> where altboot actually worked, as it is fairly fundamental for Cxx0
>> users who have so little space left on nand after flashing Angstrom.
>
> Angstrom kernel 2.6.21 and modules can be found in:
> http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24960&st=210&start=210
>
> Flashing the 2007.12 image and then flashing only the kernel (and  
> extracting
> the modules) seems to work (altboot works again). I don't know if  
> 2.6.21
> breaks something else though.
>
> The kernel can also be built by using OE/bitbake (it has a recipe  
> for 2.6.21).
> (We can also wait for 2.6.24 - possibly it fixes altboot problems).
>
> A suggestion for Angstrom maintainers: if the "console-altboot- 
> image" for
> 2007.12 has the same altboot problem in all Cxx0 models (as in C750)  
> maybe it
> should be removed from the release dir.
>
> -- 
> Grigorios Prasinos
> PhD candidate, Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept., U of  
> Patras, Greece
> http://prasinos.eu/
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